Re: Numerical string comparison - octal and hex.

From: Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:21:17 +0000
Subject: Re: Numerical string comparison - octal and hex.
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I think it's not an but!
you must read carefuly about "Single quoted" and "Double quoted"

2010/1/14 Richard Quadling <rquadling@googlemail.com>:
> Hello.
>
> In looking at numer vs string comparison, I think I've found an oddity.
>
> You can successfully compare hex strings ...
>
> var_dump(255 == '0xff');
>
> but not octal strings ...
>
> var_dump(63 == '077');
>
>
> Is this a bug (lack of octal support) or an unexpected feature (hex support)?
>
>
> Neither formats are documented in [1].
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard.
>
> [1] http://docs.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.conversion
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