From: kostas at nasis dot com
Operating system: Redhat 7.3, 8
PHP version: 4.3.2
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: sprintf() returns trailing NULL character
Description:
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sprintf() will return a trailing NULL character under certain conditions.
See code below.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$blah = sprintf("%04d", -500);
echo "$blah\n";
// display ASCII code for each character of $blah
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($blah); $i++) {
echo ord($blah{$i}) . "\n";
}
?>
Expected result:
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The code should output:
-500
45
53
48
48
Actual result:
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On PHP v4.3.2 it outputs:
-500
45
53
48
48
0
Notice the NULL (0) character at the end.
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