clue/caret-notation

^B A dead-simple PHP library to add caret notation in order to safely show strings that contain ASCII control characters (unprintable characters)

clue/caret-notation

^B A dead-simple PHP library to add caret notation in order to safely show strings that contain ASCII control characters (unprintable characters), _(*1)

Quickstart example

Once installed, you can use the following code to use caret notation for any string that (may possibly) contain binary control characters:, _(*2)

$encoder = new Encoder();

$string = "Hello\r\nworld\0";
// Output: Hello^M^Jworld^@
echo $encoder->encode($string);

$string = "No control chars";
// Output: No control chars
echo $encoder->encode($string);

Install

The recommended way to install this library is through composer. New to composer?, _(*3)

{
    "require": {
        "clue/caret-notation": "~0.2.0"
    }
}

License

MIT, _(*4)