Re: How to find if a string is an integer?

From: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:31:46 +0000
Subject: Re: How to find if a string is an integer?
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>> <snip> >> > Sorry, I don´t know that you needed an effective snipet. And you are >> > right, >> > I only writed for positive integers. Try something like apply 2 type > cast >> > simunltaneous. >> > >> > if ( (string) ((int) $_POST["var_int"]) == $_POST["var_int"]) >> > echo "is int"; >> > >> >> >> Why not just use the is_int() function? >> >> www.php.net/is_int > > Please try to use is_int() on a value passed from a form and see why. > > Also, in the beginning of this thread, the OP already said that is_int() > had > been tried. > > ---John Holmes... > I guess I missed the first part of the thread then. Thanks for the info. Alex

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