Strings with leading zeros
| From: | Charlie Llewellin | Date: | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:21:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Strings with leading zeros | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi,
I have a field returned to me from a remote database, a 8-digit number,
MMDDYYYY, which I split up to get a date to use in further calculations.
This field mostly has a leading zero for months from Jan through September;
despite explicitly setting the type to a string, if there is a leading zero
everything goes wrong. For example, if the field is 01102001, substr($field,
0, 2) returns 29, and the whole field is 295937!
This seems to be related to bug #5404, I think. Can anybody suggest a
workaround so that I can get 01 thru 09 in as my month?
Many thanks,
Charlie