#23110 [NEW]: Ugly behaviour of == (and ===)

From: kyrael at web dot de Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.3.1 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Ugly behaviour of == (and ===) <?php list($var1,$var2)=array("1e1","10"); var_dump($var1);var_dump($var2); var_dump($var1==$var2); var_dump($var1===$var2); ?> string(3) "1e1" string(2) "10" bool(true) bool(false) This behaviour is ugly - both operands are strings, and they are clearly not equal. '1e0' and '1.0' and '1' are "equal" too. Same with '3.20' and '3.2'. Does PHP think i am stupid and unable to type numbers when i want them? According to the manual, == returns true if the two operands are equal, and === returns true if the operands are equal and of the same type. == says they are equal, and according to var_dump they are both strings - why doesn't === return true then? So this behaviour is neither logical nor documented. String comparison, even with == when both operands are strings, should return 'equal' if and only if the strings are really equal. Wouldn't be PHP5 a chance to change this? -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23110&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23110&r=gnused