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input: cache file. Output: readable file (maybe .html or .php)

http://www.frozax.com/blog/2011/05/recover-file-google-chrome-cache-gzipped/

// cache.log is a copy of chrome cache page with only the file content section
$cacheString = file_get_contents("cache.log");
$matches = array();
preg_match_all('/s[0-9a-f]{2}s/', $cacheString, $matches);
$f = fopen("t.bin","wb");
foreach ($matches[0] as $match)
{
  fwrite($f,chr(hexdec($match)));
}
fclose($f);

ob_start();
readgzfile("t.bin");
$decoded_data=ob_get_clean();
echo $decoded_data;

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I want to recover files from my chrome://cache

I think this php is for linux
and I have windows

I do not see .bin or .log files in my cache,
no files contain extension

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// cache.log is a copy of chrome cache page with only the file content section
$cacheString = file_get_contents("cache.log"); //this is the location of file
$matches = array();
preg_match_all('/s[0-9a-f]{2}s/', $cacheString, $matches);
$f = fopen("t.bin","wb"); // this file does not exist; will script crash
foreach ($matches[0] as $match)
{
  fwrite($f,chr(hexdec($match)));
}
fclose($f);

ob_start();
readgzfile("t.bin"); // this file does not exist; will script crash
$decoded_data=ob_get_clean();
echo $decoded_data;

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Did I make correct change to code?

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ASKER

What change should I make?
Or what additional information should I provide?

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the answer provides guidance on how to ask the question again.

thanks