Re: Integer casts broken or...?

This is correct. The type casting converts the string into its integer value. If there is a non-numeric character in the string, it stops at that point. So "09" is 9 and "09t" is 9 but "0t9" is 0. Brian Moon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews, dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Torben Wilson" <torben@php.net> To: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 1:29 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Integer casts broken or...? > > Type casting to int from string works only for decimal values--is this > by design? Example: > > echo (int) '09' . ', ' . (int) '0x24'; > > ...produces: > > 9, 0 > > which seems intuitively wrong (I'd have expected 0, 36). > > Is this wrong, or should I just document it? > > > Thanks, > > Torben > > -- > Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> > http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com > +1.604.709.0506 > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >