#38883 [NEW]: Issue with min function when a numeric sting is passed in.

From: ryanhollett at hotmail dot com Operating system: Windows XP sp2 PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Issue with min function when a numeric sting is passed in. Description: ------------ From the php documentation for the min function "PHP will evaluate a non-numeric string as 0, but still return the string if it's seen as the numerically lowest value." It seems that this is incorrect. When a non-numeric string and a numeric string are passed in, the numeric string seems to be returned as the the min value. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php echo min("a", "2"); echo "\n"; echo min("2", "a"); echo "\n"; echo min("a", "-2"); echo "\n"; echo min("-2", "a"); ?> Expected result: ---------------- a a -2 -2 Actual result: -------------- 2 2 -2 -2 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38883&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=mysqlcfg