On 08/31/2011 09:03 AM, magic-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > I have opend Bug #51739 in 2010. It was closed as bogus before my last > question was answered. It would be fine to know what you think about > that bug. > In short: > var_dump((float)"8315e839da08e2a7afe6dd12ec58245d"); > results in float(INF) > This is because "8315" is treated as base and > "e839da08e2a7afe6dd12ec58245d" is treated as an exponent. My hint that > "e839da08e2a7afe6dd12ec58245d" is not a valid exponent was not answered. > What do you think about? > cheers > Daniel The cast to float is truncating the invalid characters and since your string contains a float that is INF (8315e839) before the truncation at the "d", then it returns INF. Makes perfect sense. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
