note 114523 added to language.types.string

String conversion to numbers. Unfortunately, the documentation is not correct. «The value is given by the initial portion of the string. If the string starts with valid numeric data, this will be the value used. Otherwise, the value will be 0 (zero).» It is not said and is not shown in examples throughout the documentation that, while converting strings to numbers, leading space characters are ignored, like with the strtod function. <?php echo " \v\f \r 1234" + 1; // 1235 var_export ("\v\f \r 1234" == "1234"); // true ?> However, PHP's behaviour differs even from the strtod's. The documentation says that if the string contains a "e" or "E" character, it will be parsed as a float, and suggests to see the manual for strtod for more information. The manual says «A hexadecimal number consists of a "0x" or "0X" followed by a nonempty sequence of hexadecimal digits possibly containing a radix character, optionally followed by a binary exponent. A binary exponent consists of a 'P' or 'p', followed by an optional plus or minus sign, followed by a nonempty sequence of decimal digits, and indicates multiplication by a power of 2.» But it seems that PHP does not recognise the exponent or the radix character. <?php echo "0xEp4" + 1; // 15 ?> strtod also uses the current locale to choose the radix character, but PHP ignores the locale, and the radix character is always 2E. However, PHP uses the locale while converting numbers to strings. With strtod, the current locale is also used to choose the space characters, I don't know about PHP. ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 72.52.91.14 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/114523 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/114523/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/114523/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/114523/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/114523/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/114523/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/114523/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/114523 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/114523 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php