Re: Strange 'if' test bug?

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From: "Christian Zambrano" <czambran@mum.edu> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Strange 'if' test bug? Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:07:06 -0500 I think PHP converts to whatever type is on the left of the equal sign which will make a lot of sense to me. I haven't thoroughly tested it. Christian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles P. Killmer" <charlesk@netgaintechnology.com> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:03 AM Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Strange 'if' test bug? I would think that PHP should make the conversion in the other direction to avoid losing data. In other words, if a conversion is necessary, convert to the data type that can handle the greater variety of data. In this case to strings. It would probably always be to strings though. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Christian Zambrano [mailto:czambran@mum.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:35 AM To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Strange 'if' test bug? $key=0; $key=="muppet"?TRUE:FALSE; The reason this last comparison returns true is that since you are comparing an integer with a string, the strings gets converted to an integer and since "muppet" does not have any numeric character it gets converted to 0. In other words as far PHP in concerned you are comparing 0 with 0 which is why the result of comparison is a true statement. Any thoughts on this? Thanks Christian -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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