Re: Use of "empty character constant?"

From: Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:10:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Use of "empty character constant?"
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Hi Antony, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Dovgal" > On 08.07.2006 14:48, Matt W wrote: > > Hi Pierre, > > > > :-O I was just going to give you an example from zend_operators.h, > > is_numeric_string() and guess what? It's the "correct" way that I thought > > it should be! I thought PHP 6 changed something, to where > > > > /* handle hex numbers */ > > if (length>=2 && str[0]=='0' && (str[1]=='x' || > > str[1]=='X')) { > > conv_base=16; > > } > > > > which is easy to understand :-) became > > > > if (length>=2 && str[0]=='' && (str[1]=='x' || > > str[1]=='X')) { > > conv_base=16; > > } > > '0' became '' ? > Why would _character_ 0 become nothing? I don't know; was wondering the same thing. :-) But, that is what I saw on http://lxr.php.net :-( Matt

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