RE: [PHP] suppressing division by zero errors

that's alright - i'm using 4.0.6 and the suppression works thnx again -----Original Message----- From: Lars Torben Wilson [mailto:torben@php.net] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:33 AM To: Christopher William Wesley Cc: php-general@lists.php.net; Martin Towell Subject: Re: [PHP] suppressing division by zero errors On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 15:16, Christopher William Wesley wrote: > You really need to do some error checking on the denominator. > $num = 5; > $den = 0; > > echo $den != 0 ? $num/$den : "0"; > > A number divided by zero isn't defined, so you have to circumvent the > situation by making sure it never happens. Actually, the result of a divide-by-zero will be boolean false in PHP 4. Though in older (4.0.3pl1, to be precise) versions, the warning doesn't seem to be suppressable. Hm. Torben > ~Chris /"\ > \ / September 11, 2001 > X We Are All New Yorkers > / \ rm -rf /bin/laden > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Martin Towell wrote: > > > Is there a way to suppress division by zero errors? > > > > echo 5/0; // this give a warning - obviously!! > > > > @echo 5/0; // this gives a parse error > > > > echo @5/0; // this still comes up with a warning > > > > unless I turn error_reporting off before and turn it back on afterwards, but > > I don't want to do that unless I REALLY have to > > > > Martin > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.inflatableeye.com +1.604.709.0506 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net