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RarArchive::getComment

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(PECL rar >= 2.0.0)

Get comment text from the RAR archive

Description

Oop (method):

RarArchive::getComment(): string

Procedural:

rar_comment_get(RarArchive $rarfile): string

Get the (global) comment stored in the RAR archive. It may be up to 64 KiB long.

Note

This extension does not support comments at the entry level.

Parameters

rarfile

A RarArchive object, opened with rar_open().

Return Values

Returns the comment or null if there is none.

Note

RAR has currently no support for unicode comments. The encoding of the result of this function is not specified, but it will probably be Windows-1252.

Examples

Oop

php
<?php
$rar_arch = RarArchive::open('commented.rar');
echo $rar_arch->getComment();
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

output
This is the comment of the file commented.rar.

Procedural

php
<?php
$rar_arch = rar_open('commented.rar');
echo rar_comment_get($rar_arch);
?>

Source: reference/rar/rararchive/getcomment.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)