The PHP unpack() function unpacks data from a binary string.
Syntax
unpack(format, data)
Parameters
Parameter | Description |
format | Specifies the format to use when unpacking data:
- a - NUL-padded string
- A - SPACE-padded string
- h - Hex string, low nibble first
- H - Hex string, high nibble first
- c - signed char
- C - unsigned char
- s - signed short (always 16 bit, machine byte order)
- S - unsigned short (always 16 bit, machine byte order)
- n - unsigned short (always 16 bit, big endian byte order)
- v - unsigned short (always 16 bit, little endian byte order)
- i - signed integer (machine dependent size and byte order)
- I - unsigned integer (machine dependent size and byte order)
- l - signed long (always 32 bit, machine byte order)
- L - unsigned long (always 32 bit, machine byte order)
- N - unsigned long (always 32 bit, big endian byte order)
- V - unsigned long (always 32 bit, little endian byte order)
- q - signed long long (always 64 bit, machine byte order)
- Q - unsigned long long (always 64 bit, machine byte order)
- J - unsigned long long (always 64 bit, big endian byte order)
- P - unsigned long long (always 64 bit, little endian byte order)
- f - float (machine dependent size and representation)
- g - float (machine dependent size, little endian byte order)
- G - float (machine dependent size, big endian byte order)
- d - double (machine dependent size and representation)
- e - double (machine dependent size, little endian byte order)
- E - double (machine dependent size, big endian byte order)
- x - NUL byte
- X - Back up one byte
- Z - NUL-padded string
- @ - NUL-fill to absolute position
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data | Specifies the binary data to be unpacked (required) |
offset | Specifies where to start unpacking from (default is 0) |