#19883 [NEW]: string concatenation bug

From: skaventruc@yahoo.fr Operating system: Windows NT PHP version: 4.2.0 PHP Bug Type: Strings related Bug description: string concatenation bug concatenation hazard ... on : $a = 2; echo 'c='.$a*2 .' ok'; it produce a good result : "c=4 ok" but : $a = 2; echo 'c='.$a*2.' ok'; produce a parse error : unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING ... also the following works : echo 'c='.$a*2..' ok'; so it should be a bug when trying to see "2." as a float when it is an integer followed by a concatenation operator (that's the problem when using operators that are also separators...) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19883&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19883&r=isapi