My php knowledge is very poor (only worked with strings so far), and I am faced which a task that is a real challenge for me:
I have a variable, that contains data of different type, in this order:
byte, byte, string, string, string, string, short, byte, byte, byte, byte, byte, byte, byte, string

Strings are of variable length. How could this data be parsed into variables of the right type, and then all converted to strings?
What are the functions to use?

P.S.
Strings are unicode ones, and they are delimited by "

We wouldn't know unless you posted some actual data?

No idea where your data is coming from, or how that motley bunch
got assigned to a single variable - can't really answer your
question(s) at all.


Cheers,
Tink

Thank you, but I have almost solved this (after realizing that most php string function are "byte safe"), I only need a little help now:

Strings seem to be separated not by " but by ascii 0 characters (at least ord returned 0 as the ascii code of the character following each string in the data).

Why does this return nothing then?:
/ $string contains the data
$delim = "%00";
$pos = strpos ($string, $delim);
echo $pos;

The only thing I need to solve this is to get the position of the ascii 0 character, but the above prints nothing, $pos seem to be empty...

Try "\0" instead of "%00".

That's it, thank you!

I would have never figured that out, as I have a working sample code in which the "%00" syntax worked like a charm in the str_replace function...