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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:22:28 +0300
To: "Scott McNaught [Synergy 8]" <scott.mcnaught@synergy8.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Comparison: ('*' == 0) ... True or false
From: indeyets@gmail.com ("Alexey Zakhlestin")

On 3/11/08, Scott McNaught [Synergy 8] <scott.mcnaught@synergy8.com> wrote:
>  I don't know whether to post this as a bug or not.  But I was tricked when programming today.
>
>  It seems that the character "*" is non-strictly equivalent to 0.  Is this the correct behavior or am I missing something?
>
>  Test case:
>
>  <?php
>
>  var_dump('*' == 0);
>
>  ?>
>
>  Shows boolean(true).
>
>  I was unable to find any documentation as to why this would be the case.

try

<?php
echo intval("*");
?>

that should explain the situation ;)

-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/