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RarArchive::getComment

rar_comment_get

(PECL rar >= 2.0.0)

RarArchive::getComment -- rar_comment_get — Get comment text from the RAR archive

Description

Object-oriented style (method):

public function RarArchive::getComment(): string

Procedural style:

function 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

Example #1 Object-oriented style

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

The above example will output something similar to:

This is the comment of the file commented.rar.

Example #2 Procedural style

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

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^RarArchiveLast updated: Mon, 26 Oct 2026