RE: Best way to convert Little-Endian DWORD to string

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tijnema [mailto:tijnema@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 May 2007 15:20
> To: php
> Subject:  Best way to convert Little-Endian DWORD to string
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe quite strange question and quite off topic, but there's PHP 
> involved :)
> 
> I want to read out files, and then I come across 4byte DWORD values,
> they are stored in little endian values, but how do I get in a PHP
> string (as the values are too large for integer)
> 
> My code is currently this:
> $data = fread($fp,4);
> $value = 
> (ord(substr($data,3,1))*256*256*256)+(ord(substr($data,2,1))*256*2
> 56)+(ord(substr($data,1,1))*256)+(ord(substr($data,0,1)));
> 
> and now $value contains the value of the DWORD, it works fine, but it
> seems that it could be done a lot easier :)
> Anyone experience with it?

Could you not use the << bitwise operator?

Edward

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