Re: Strings with leading zeros

Not when this is coming in via a URL. All GET/POST/Cookie parameters are assumed to be strings since there is no way for us to tell that they aren't. -Rasmus On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 eschmid+sic@s.netic.de wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:37:24PM -0600, Charlie Llewellin wrote: > > It comes back to me as a key value pair (expire=01102001) in a URL. It never > > gets to my database. I am trying to set a cookie to expire at a future date > > based on this field. > > A number starting with a zero is interpreted as a octal number. Drop the > leading zero and it would be a decimal number. > > -Egon > > -- > http://www.linuxtag.de/ > http://php.net/books.php > http://www.concert-band.de/ >