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fix: terminate every very long string record entry with NUL + tab
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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# Changelog

## 3.1.2 (2026-11-09)

- Fixed the very long string record (type 7, subtype 14): every `NAME=WIDTH` entry, including the last one, now ends with NUL + tab as SPSS and PSPP write it. IBM SPSS Statistics previously ignored the record and showed each 252-byte segment of a string wider than 255 bytes as a separate variable (`NAME_A`, `NAME_B`, ...).
- Updated development tooling: PHPUnit 13.4.6, PHP-CS-Fixer 3.95.29, Infection 0.35.10, Rector 2.8.4 and PHPStan 2.3.5, and resolved the `symfony/filesystem` advisory in the development lock file.
- No runtime API changes.

## 3.0.4 (2026-09-07)

- Updated development tooling: PHPUnit 13.3.1, PHP-CS-Fixer 3.95.22, Infection 0.35.2, Rector 2.6.3, and PHPStan 2.2.9.
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4 changes: 1 addition & 3 deletions src/Sav/Reader.php
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Expand Up @@ -270,9 +270,7 @@ public function rewindCaseIterator(): bool

public function readCase(): bool
{
if ($this->record === null) {
$this->record = Record\Data::create();
}
$this->record ??= Record\Data::create();

$this->lastCase++;

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4 changes: 1 addition & 3 deletions src/Sav/Record/Info/Unknown.php
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Expand Up @@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ public function read(Buffer $buffer): void
#[\Override]
public function write(Buffer $buffer): void
{
if (!isset($this->data['raw'])) {
$this->data['raw'] = '';
}
$this->data['raw'] ??= '';

$this->dataCount = \strlen((string) $this->data['raw']);
parent::write($buffer);
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions src/Sav/Record/Info/VeryLongString.php
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public function write(Buffer $buffer): void
{
if ([] !== $this->data) {
$data = [];
// SPSS only recognises entries terminated by NUL + tab, including the last one.
$data = '';
foreach ($this->data as $key => $value) {
$data[] = sprintf('%s=%05d%c', $key, $value, 0);
$data .= sprintf('%s=%05d%c', $key, $value, 0) . self::DELIMITER;
}

$data = implode(self::DELIMITER, $data);
$this->dataCount = $buffer->encodedStringLength($data);
parent::write($buffer);
$buffer->writeString($data);
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions tests/VeryLongStringWriterTest.php
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$buffer = $writer->getBuffer();
$buffer->rewind();

$raw = stream_get_contents($buffer->getStream());
// Record 7/14 body must end every entry, including the last, with NUL + tab (as SPSS and PSPP write it).
self::assertStringContainsString(
pack('V4', 7, VeryLongString::SUBTYPE, 1, 12) . "\xC3\x95\xC3\x84=00700\x00\t",

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nl -ba src/Sav/Record/Info/VeryLongString.php | sed -n '1,100p'
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PHP 8.4 pack format i signed integer machine dependent byte order V unsigned long little endian documentation

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Sources consulted:
- PHP: pack - Manual — https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pack.php
- PHP: pack - Manual — https://www.php.net/manual/uk/function.pack.php
- PHP: pack - Manual — https://www.php.net/manual/it/function.pack.php
- PHP: unpack - Manual — https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unpack.php
- PHP: rfc:pack_unpack_64bit_formats — https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pack_unpack_64bit_formats
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nl -ba src/Buffer.php | sed -n '240,318p'
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nl -ba src/Sav/Record/Info/VariableDisplayParam.php
nl -ba src/Sav/Record/Info/MachineInteger.php
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Match the writer’s integer byte order in the assertion.

On a big-endian host, the writer emits a big-endian record header, but pack('V4', ...) expects little-endian bytes. The assertion can fail even when the payload is correct. Build the expected header with the writer’s integer encoding.

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Review comment at @tests/VeryLongStringWriterTest.php at line 67:
Update the expected record header in the VeryLongString writer test to use the
same integer byte order as the writer instead of the fixed little-endian
pack('V4', ...) encoding. Preserve the existing header values and payload
assertion.

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$raw,
);
$buffer->rewind();

$reader = Reader::fromString($buffer->getStream())->read();

self::assertSame(["\xC3\x95\xC3\x84" => 700], $reader->info[VeryLongString::SUBTYPE]->toArray());
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use SebastianBergmann\CodeCoverage\Report\Facade as ReportFacade;
use SebastianBergmann\CodeCoverage\Serialization\Merger;

require dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';
require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

final class BranchCoverageRunner
{
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