#30726 [Opn->Ctl]: Negative floats <1 as strings don't work in calculations

ID: 30726 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: degusta at yahoo dot com -Status: Open +Status: Critical Bug Type: Math related Operating System: * -PHP Version: 4.3.10 +PHP Version: 4CVS, 5CVS (2005-01-10) New Comment: See also bug #30069 This works fine with e.g. PHP 4.2.2 :) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-09 01:10:54] degusta at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ Strings that are between 0 and -1 and don't have a leading zero, e.g. "-.2", "-.95", etc, do not get cast to floats. This is a variant of bug 30069 which was closed with 4.3.9. That fix did solve the problem for positive floats (".1", ".4", etc), but apparently not for negative floats. The bug is still present in CVS as of 11/8/04 (php4-STABLE-200411082130). I haven't checked the 5 branch yet, but my guess is that it's wrong there too since 30069 also existed in the 5 branch. Every past version of PHP has cast this properly (up through and including 4.3.8). Reproduce code: --------------- echo '-.1' * 2; Expected result: ---------------- -0.2 Actual result: -------------- 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30726&edit=1