Re: "My truth comes out" [1]

Russell Dias wrote: > preg_match("/false/i", $string) ? false : true; ,---- | $foo = (strcmp('true', $string) == 0); `---- works as well :) I don't like those kinds of things for this purpose because it takes longer for people new to the code to read and understand it than, say ,---- | (boolean) $string; `---- (which in my case does a pretty meaningless conversion) No, I was just wondering whether I had missed some construct in the language that might the conversion for me, and be obvious to PHP-heads. No problem that there doesn't seem to be.