RE: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread John Holmes
IL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin?? > > Computing-intensive, time-consuming and whatever else expensive > functions do ;-) > > Bogdan > > Joshua E Minnie wrote: > > >Expensive how? > > > >-josh > > > >"Bogdan Stancescu" <[EM

Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Computing-intensive, time-consuming and whatever else expensive functions do ;-) Bogdan Joshua E Minnie wrote: >Expensive how? > >-josh > >"Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'd recommend writing a wrapper around base_convert, naming it hex2bin >>and using that instead. base_con

Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Evan Nemerson
Computation time. CPU cycles. On Tuesday 30 April 2002 13:56 pm, you wrote: > Expensive how? > > -josh > > "Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd recommend writing a wrapper around base_convert, naming it hex2bin > > and using that instead. base_convert() is way too expensive for

Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Evan Nemerson
Perhaps you could use something a little more KISS- like rawurldecode(chunk_split ( $hexstring, 2 , "%")) not sure if it would be faster than base_convert or not, but it wouldn't be too hard to find out. On Tuesday 30 April 2002 11:50 am, you wrote: > Although the first comment was not what

Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Joshua E Minnie
Expensive how? -josh "Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd recommend writing a wrapper around base_convert, naming it hex2bin > and using that instead. base_convert() is way too expensive for this > purpose (you know that any hex figure is translated to exactly four > bits, so you

Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
I'd recommend writing a wrapper around base_convert, naming it hex2bin and using that instead. base_convert() is way too expensive for this purpose (you know that any hex figure is translated to exactly four bits, so you don't need any actual conversion - just replacement). This is why I sugge

Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Joshua E Minnie
Although the first comment was not what I needed, I did find another built-in function that converts between any base, base_convert($number, $frombase, $tobase) worked wonderful for what I needed. Josh "Miguel Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]..

Re: [PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Joshua E Minnie wrote: > I know that there is a built-in function for bin2hex(), but does any body > know have any code to do just the opposite, convert hex2bin? Check the first comment in the manual under bin2hex. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)

[PHP] Hex2Bin??

2002-04-30 Thread Joshua E Minnie
I know that there is a built-in function for bin2hex(), but does any body know have any code to do just the opposite, convert hex2bin? -- Joshua E Minnie/CIO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 616.276.9690 Fax: 616.342.8750 Nextel: 616.862.2847 "Don't work for recognition, but always do work worthy of rec