PHP

Topic: Files

What's Wrong with "while ($c=fgetc($f)) {}"?

If you are using "while ($c=fgetc($f)) {}" to loop through each character in a file, the loop may end in the middle of the file when there is a "0" character, because PHP treats "0" as Boolean false. To properly loop to the end of the file, you should use "while ( ($c=fgetc($f)) !== false ) {}". Here is a PHP script example on incorrect testing of fgetc():<?php $file = fopen("/temp/cgi.log", "w");fwrite($file,"Remote host: 64.233.179.104.\r\n");fwrite($file,"Query string: cate=102&order=down&lang=en.\r\n");fclose($file); $file = fopen("/temp/cgi.log", "r");while ( ($char=fgetc($file)) ) {  print($char);}fclose($file); ?>This script will print:Remote host: 64.233.179.1As you can see the loop indeed stopped at character "0".

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