Re: why is '01' == '1.'?
| From: | Bart de Boer | Date: | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:11:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: why is '01' == '1.'? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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> Don't forget that one fundamental aspect of PHP is, that it's a web
> language and thus receives most of its input from the web.
> Therefore it usually only gets strings as input.
>
> Consider ($_POST['intfield1'] == $_POST['intfield2'])
>
> Both variables would be strings. Still if someone would input '01'
> and '1.' you'd want this expression to return true.
>
However, XForms will have numeric datatypes. :|
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/slice5.html
Bart