Re: How to test if a number is negative

Or, as my teenage son, who is smarter than me, suggests ...

        1 / $x + abs( $x )

which yields 1/0 if $x is neg. (He didn't go into trapping for the error ... sigh.) Miles At 11:07 PM 9/25/2002 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote:

$x = -1; if ($x < 0 ){

        echo "Negative";

else

        echo "Positive";

} Or am I missing something? Miles At 07:02 PM 9/25/2002 -0700, Mike Dunlop wrote:

I've look through all the numerican functions but can't readily see a way to test for a negative number e.g -7 Any ideas on how to do this? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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