note 64922 deleted from language.types.string by nlopess

Note Submitter: ---- The statement in the documentation, "The string will evaluate as a float if it contains any of the characters '.', 'e', or 'E'." is not quite correct. It seems it could validly state, however, that the string will evaluate as a float if it contains any of the characters '.', 'e', or 'E' in a valid float sequence at the beginning of the string. Thus, the following evaluates as a float: <?php var_dump(1+"2e5"); // float(200001) ?> but the following example (obtained from the documentation itself) does not: <?php $foo = 1 + "bob-1.3e3"; // $foo is integer (1) ?> It might also be noted that whitespace preceding a valid float or integer in a string will produce a valid numerical result.