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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:44:50 +1000
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Comparison: ('*' == 0) ... True or false
From: scott.mcnaught@synergy8.com ("Scott McNaught [Synergy 8]")

"If you compare an integer with a string, the string is converted to a
number. If you compare two numerical strings, they are compared as
integers." Well... I just feel stupid now :)

I am writing something which is extracting parts of a crontab. The variable
contained "*" was being compared to 0.

This would have clicked for me had it been anything else, but because it was
"*" my thoughts were that there was some new wild-card thing going on that I
hadn't heard about.

Cheers guys and sorry for my dumb post!

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:25 PM
To: Scott McNaught [Synergy 8]
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Comparison: ('*' == 0) ... True or false

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Scott McNaught [Synergy 8]
<scott.mcnaught@synergy8.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>  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.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php

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Pierre
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