Re: Integer casts broken or...?

Brian Moon writes: > 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 Yeah, I know--it winds up being a strtol() call. However, since PHP does interpret octal and hex integer literals, it seems odd that it won't interpret them when encapsulated in strings. This does look intentional though, since strtol() is called with a base of 10 in zend_operators.c (line 259 in cvs); replacing it with a base of 0 gives the result I (personally) would have expected. So--is it intentional because it would screw some people up to have left-zero-padded string numbers interpreted as octals, or is there another deeper reason that using 0 as the base for strtol() is a bad idea, or is this unintentional? > ----- 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 > > > > > > > -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com +1.604.709.0506