Doc #79111 [Com]: is_numeric documentation utterly incomplete

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79111&edit=1 ID: 79111 Comment by: deleugyn+php at gmail dot com Reported by: php4fan at gmail dot com Summary: is_numeric documentation utterly incomplete Status: Verified Type: Documentation Problem Package: Variables related Operating System: all PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: https://github.com/php/doc-en/pull/870 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-01-13 17:16:44] cmb@php.net See also <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/trailing_whitespace_numerics>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-01-13 16:07:00] php4fan at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: https://php.net/function.is-numeric --- I found out to my surprise that is_numeric(" 3") returns true, but is_numeric("3 ") returns false. Spaces at the beginning of a string have no effect; spaces at the end do, making the string not numeric. Assuming that's the expected behavior, that's far from obvious and should be documented. The docs say: "Numeric strings consist of optional sign, any number of digits, optional decimal part and optional exponential part." There's no mention whatsoever of spaces. From that description, taken literally, I'd expect a space at the beginning to ALSO be considered non-numeric. Short of that, I'd expect spaces to be either ignored both at the beginning and end or neither. Test script: --------------- echo is_numeric("3")?"Yes\n":"no\n"; echo is_numeric(" 3")?"Yes\n":"no\n"; echo is_numeric("3 ")?"Yes\n":"no\n"; Expected result: ---------------- documentation should be exhaustive Actual result: -------------- documentation doesn't document the behavior properly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79111&edit=1