#19883 [Bgs]: string concatenation bug

ID: 19883 Updated by: spic@php.net Reported By: skaventruc@yahoo.fr Status: Bogus Bug Type: Strings related Operating System: Windows NT PHP Version: 4.2.0 New Comment: In that case, simply use $i = 153; echo $i*2 echo 'km'; or printf()... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-13 11:16:05] skaventruc@yahoo.fr and when you want to concatenate with dynamic calculated infos ? $i = 153; echo $i*2.'km'; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-13 09:47:57] derick@php.net Why don't you just use '2km' instead of 2.'km' ? Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-13 09:46:06] skaventruc@yahoo.fr and also : $e = 0x7C.'km'; // is ok '124km' $e = 124.'km'; // parse error why do you process decimal integers in different way than hexadecimal integers ? If it is only to detect decimal float then you should take care to the fact that '.' is not only a decimal separator but also a concatenation operator !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-13 09:41:43] skaventruc@yahoo.fr maybe you do not consider it as a bug but it is quite annoying when contatenating arguments, I personnaly think that this is a lack of the parser/compiler to do not detect that the '.' is not a part of the '2' but it is an operator : putting a '.' after the 2 doesn't change it's display. $e = 2.3.'km'; // the dot after 2 followed by a digit // indicate a float '2.3km' $e = 2..'km'; // is ok the the dot after 2 is useless '2km' $e = 2.'km'; // produce a parse error $e = 2 .'km'; // is ok '2km' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-10-12 22:50:10] sniper@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/19883 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19883&edit=1