Re: PHP: array with null shows different with print_r and var_dump

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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 12:19 +0530, Sanjay Mantoor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to PHP and PHP community.
> 
> Following program outputs different values with print_r and var_dump.
> 
> $array = array(null, NULL);
> 
> print_r($array); prints values like below
> Array
> (
>     [0] =>
>     [1] =>
> )
> 
> where as var_dump($array) prints values like below
> array(2) {
>   [0]=>
>   NULL    // Does this convert to null to NULL?
>   [1]=>
>   NULL
> }
> 
> Can you tell me why the above difference?

NULL and null are the same thing. If I'm correct var_dump() was created
to solve the problem of not knowing what the datatypes are when using
print_r().

Cheers,
Rob.
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