<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >unpack</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Miscellaneous functions" HREF="ref.misc.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="uniqid" HREF="function.uniqid.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="unserialize" HREF="function.unserialize.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.uniqid.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.unserialize.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.unpack" >unpack</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN17660" ></A >unpack -- Unpack data from binary string.</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN17663" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >array unpack</CODE >(string format, string data);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >Unpack()</B > from binary string into array according to <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >format</I ></TT >. Returns array containing unpacked elements of binary string. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >Unpack()</B > works slightly different from Perl as the unpacked data is stored in an associative array. To accomplish this you have to name the different format codes and separate them by a slash /. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >Unpack()</B > format string</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 $array = unpack ("c2chars/nint", $binarydata); 3 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The resulting array will contain the entries "chars1", "chars2" and "int". </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > For an explanation of the format codes see also: <A HREF="function.pack.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pack()</B ></A > </P ><P > Note that PHP internally stores integral values as signed. If you unpack a large unsigned long and it is of the same size as PHP internally stored values the result will be a negative number even though unsigned unpacking was specified. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.uniqid.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.unserialize.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >uniqid</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.misc.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >unserialize</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >