string to binary converter...

[taith]

does anyone know if there is a builtin ascii to binary converter?

i know i can just

$a=array('a'=>b'01100001','b'=>b'01100010');

but is there a more resource efficient way of doing this?

[jl5501]

is your string, a string representation of a binary number?

 

If so, I have some code I wrote years ago, I can share with you

[Mchl]

echo decbin(ord('a'));

[taith]

no, its a string... like "test" becoming "01110100011001010111001101110100"

 

and decbin(ord('a')) works, but it seems to remove preceding 0s but allinall, it'll do

[Mchl]

add sprintf to the mix to pad it with leading zeroes.

[taith]

thank ya kindly for those that have need of it...

<?
function exc($string){

$out=array();

for($i=0; $i<strlen($string); $i++) $out[]=$string{$i};

return $out;

}


function stb($s){
$s=exc($s);
foreach($s as $k=>$v) $s[$k]=str_pad(decbin(ord($v)), 8, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
return implode('',$s);
}

print_r(stb('test'));
?>

[RussellReal]

I would add spaces..

[taith]

I would add spaces..

 

spaces are only for user viewing... processer doesnt care