On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Alain Roger <raf.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > i know this topic is obvious but i have a strange behavior and i'm getting > crazy. > > my stored procedure returns me a string. > string can be an email or a message error => '-1', '-2', '-3' > > when i check if the string contains only digit, i use ctype_digit(mystring) > but any way it returns me false... i suppose that for -1, -2, -3 the "-" is > taken as character and not a digit. > i tried also to cast it before into integer thanks > ctype_digit((int)mystring), but it does not work. > > so how can i solve this issue ? > > thx > > -- > Alain > ------------------------------------ > Windows XP SP2 > PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005 > Apache 2.2.4 > PHP 5.2.4 > C# 2005-2008 > is_numeric() -- -Casey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php