Encoding a string?

[howachen@gmail.com]

Suppose I have a string,

e.g. $str = 'good morning';


I want encode the string into a format that doesn't contains any
special character like \n, \r and space etc.


Currently base64_encode is used. But are there any faster methods?


Thanks.

Howa

[samudasu]

Re: Encoding a string?

use trim on the string to remove \n \r \t spaces, etc.
$str = 'good morning';
$trimmed = trim($str);

[Ewoud Dronkert]

Re: Encoding a string?

howachen@gmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
> I want encode the string into a format that doesn't contains any
> special character like \n, \r and space etc.
>
> Currently base64_encode is used. But are there any faster methods?[/color]

Try urlencode, addslashes, htmlspecialchar s, htmlentities, str_replace,
preg_replace, strtr.

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E. Dronkert

[Sjoerd]

Re: Encoding a string?

howachen@gmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
> Currently base64_encode is used. But are there any faster methods?[/color]

No. These are some functions used to encode 11 MB of data and the time
they took to do so:

base64_encode: 0.105 sec
urlencode: 0.122 sec
addslashes: 0.114 sec
htmlspecialchar s: 0.400 sec
htmlentities: 1.145 sec

[Jasen Betts]

Re: Encoding a string?

On 2006-02-19, howachen@gmail. com <howachen@gmail .com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Suppose I have a string,
>
> e.g. $str = 'good morning';
>
>
> I want encode the string into a format that doesn't contains any
> special character like \n, \r and space etc.[/color]

addslashes



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Bye.
Jasen

[howachen@gmail.com]

Re: Encoding a string?

oh....great! seems base64 is the fastest one.

Thanks for your information!

Rdgs,
howa