Binary data

[mahe4us]

Hi all,

Iam really happy to registered as a member in this site. This is my first post. If any error is going to happen in this execuse me,,,   I have gone through several php articles sites and many of the sites using binary data term in many articles.  Iam really want to know what is binary data and how it is used in php.... kinly give me your answer if anybody have answer for it..... thanks in advance..

Thanks
mahe4us

[VGR]

there's no specific use of binary data in PHP, reassure yourself ;-)

ther's no magick either :D

"binary data" means "non human readable format", ie "not text"

This said, every file containing some ASCII characters like the bell (Ctrl-G, #7), TAB (#4?), CR, LF, ESC or EOF (Ctr-Z) can be considered "binary", but text files do contain them so "not pure text" means usually "text not containing only character and associated printable character codes from the ASCII-7 or ASCII-8 charset"

in other words, RTF, EPS and CSV are text formats, PDF and DOC are not.

Open a .doc file in notepad to see when we mean by "binary data".

regards