Re: variable type - conversion/checking
| From: | Jim Lucas | Date: | Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:31:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: variable type - conversion/checking | ||
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On 03/15/2013 02:33 PM, richard gray wrote:
On 15/03/2013 22:00, Ashley Sheridan wrote:Nope, because the OP wants to test if a variable, that is a string, could be converted to an integer. Not if a variable is an integer. -- Jim Lucas http://www.cmsws.com/ http://www.cmsws.com/examples/On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 04:57 -0500, tamouse mailing lists wrote: For my money,I'm late in on this thread so apologies if I have missed something here .. but wouldn't is_int() do what the OP wants? richis_numeric()does just what I want. The thing is, is_numeric() will not check if a string is a valid int, but any valid number, including a float. For something like this, wouldn't a regex be better? if(preg_match('/^\-?\d+$/', $string)) echo int