Bug #66793 [Com]: range(0,9) and range('0','9') both produce intergers in array

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66793&edit=1 ID: 66793 Comment by: a dot r dot austin at gmail dot com Reported by: araustin at gmail dot com Summary: range(0,9) and range('0','9') both produce intergers in array Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Output Control Operating System: Win 8 PHP Version: 5.4.25 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: You say that what about range('24','42') ??? Well, it is the same as to ask what about range('pk','rt')... It does not make sense. If is it a string, it should be an ascii character, one char long. range('24','42') should be error of some sorts just like range('pk','rt') Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-02-28 10:33:43] ab@php.net That may sound logic for your particular example, however if you spread it with say range('24','42'), it'll become inconsistent. Concatenation with integer still works, and the way it's handled now is consistent - numeric strings become numbers, it was introduced somewhere in PHP-4 according to the doc page. And btw that is platform independent behavior. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-02-27 23:52:14] araustin at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.range --- Test script: --------------- $allowedChars_num = range(0,9); $allowedChars_str = range('0','9'); var_dump($allowedChars_num); var_dump($allowedChars_str); Expected result: ---------------- range(0,9) is proper, making an array of integers range('0','9') should be making an array of strings, ex: '0','1','2' etc... Actual result: -------------- array(10) { [0]=> int(0) [1]=> int(1) [2]=> int(2) [3]=> int(3) [4]=> int(4) [5]=> int(5) [6]=> int(6) [7]=> int(7) [8]=> int(8) [9]=> int(9) } array(10) { [0]=> int(0) [1]=> int(1) [2]=> int(2) [3]=> int(3) [4]=> int(4) [5]=> int(5) [6]=> int(6) [7]=> int(7) [8]=> int(8) [9]=> int(9) } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66793&edit=1