note 57559 added to function.strval
| From: | php at ianco dot co dot uk | Date: | Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:36:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 57559 added to function.strval | ||
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I can't help being surprised that
(string)"0" == (string)"0.00"
evaluates to true. It's the same with strval and single quotes.
=== avoids it.
Why does it matter? One of my suppliers, unbelievably, uses 0 to mean standard discount and 0.00 to
mean no discount in their stock files.
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