Actually we'r talking about diffrent things... What I wanted to
highlight is that results that should be normally seen as 0 or false for
logic comparations when using bc functions are not processed as 0 or
false actually and you should take care when using constructs like
if( $var )
{
...
}
when working with variables that are a result of bc functions.
Andy
Ford, Mike wrote:
On 03 February 2006 13:14, Andrei wrote:
Welcome,
Please note that using bc function variables will be of type string.
So a code working with numeric values like:
$a = 1;
if( $a )
{
...
}
it's ok but with bc functions:
$a = 14.5;
$b = -14.5;
$c = bcadd( $a, $b );
if( $c )
{
...
}
will not work as expected ( if( "0" ) is interpreted like a string
that is not null and so condition is interpreted as true.
Er - nope. The string "0" is explicitly equivalent to FALSE -- see http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.boolean.php#language.types.boolean.casting
Cheers!
Mike
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