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PHP Character processing

This code always fails, return FALSE, even thought the first character is a B or 66.
I'm not sure how to format character processing in PHP.
My desire is the see if there are any characters below 64 that are not vaild in this buffer.
Seems like this should be simple, but it's not.
Thanks
for ( $i = 0 ; $i < 102 ; $i += 1){
if ($pszBuffer[$i] < 64){
return FALSE;
}
}

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Dave Baldwin

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artwilkes

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Both solutions were great. David Baldwin's was right on,but ziceva's was also very helpfull. Particulary the link to the ascii table.

Dave Baldwin

This PHP page clearly shows (in color) what the difference between PHP's interpretation of '< 64' and '< "@" ' is.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Buffer Check</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Buffer Check</h1>
<?php 
$pszBuffer = "This code always fails, return FALSE, even thought the first character is a B or 66. I'm not sure how to format character processing in PHP. My desire is the see if there are any characters below 64 that are not vaild in this buffer. Seems like this should be simple, but it's not.";

for ( $i = 0 ; $i < 102 ; $i++){
  if ($pszBuffer[$i] < 64){
    echo $i.":<span style='color: #ffffff;background-color: #ff0000;'>".$pszBuffer[$i]."</span>&nbsp;";
  }
}
echo "<br><br>";
for ( $i = 0 ; $i < 102 ; $i++){
  if ($pszBuffer[$i] < '@'){
    echo $i.":<span style='color: #ffffff;background-color: #ff0000;'>".$pszBuffer[$i]."</span>&nbsp;";
  }
}
 ?>
</body>
</html>

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