Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #3399 Updated: postfix increment operator (++) fails to cast string to integer

HH(>> > This is Perl-style "smart increment". It is intended to be so. HH(>> HH(>> could you please describe what it is or give pointers HH(>> to information about it for us non-perlers? Well, perl manual says: The auto-increment operator has a little extra builtin magic to it. If you increment a variable that is numeric, or that has ever been used in a numeric context, you get a normal increment. If, however, the variable has been used in only string contexts since it was set, and has a value that is not the empty string and matches the pattern /^[a- zA-Z]*[0-9]*$/, the increment is done as a string, preserving each character within its range, with carry: print ++($foo = '99'); # prints '100' print ++($foo = 'a0'); # prints 'a1' print ++($foo = 'Az'); # prints 'Ba' print ++($foo = 'zz'); # prints 'aaa' I do not guarantee that PHP works exactly like this, but I guess the intention was to do so. -- Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com +972-3-6139665 ext.106