To exclude unexcepted behavior in case of wrongly formated input data, it would be much better to use such type-casting method: intval(ltrim(trim($inStr), '0')) 2010/11/3, Nicholas Kell <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:22 PM, robert mena wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a text file (utf-8 encoded) which contains lines with numbers and >> text separated by \t. I need to convert the numbers that contains 0 (at >> left) to integers. >> >> For some reason one line that contains 00000002 is casted to 0 instead of >> 2. >> Bellow the output of the cast (int) $field[0] where I get this from >> explode each line. >> >> 0 ï00000002 >> 4 00000004 > > > > My first guess is wondering how you are grabbing the strings from the file. > Seems to me like it would just drop the zeros on the left by default. Are > you including the \t in the string by accident? If so, that may be hosing > it. Otherwise, have you tried ltrim on it? > > Ex: > > $_castableString = ltrim($_yourString, '0'); > > // Now cast > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
