note 67686 deleted from language.types.array by googleguy

Note Submitter: ch dot martin at gmail dot com ---- Extremely irritating quirk regarding the variable types of array keys: <?php $r = array('05' => "abc", '35' => "def"); foreach ($r as $key=>$value) var_dump($key); ?> The first var_dump for '05' is: string(2) "05" as expected. But the second, '35', turns out as: int(35) Php apparently decided to make the 35 became an int, but not the 05 (presumably because it leads with a zero). As far as I can see, there is absolutely no way of making string(2) "35" an array key.