Re: variable type - conversion/checking

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On 03/14/2013 11:50 AM, Samuel Lopes Grigolato wrote:
Something like "if (is_numeric($var)&&  $var == floor($var))" will do the
trick. I don't know if there's a better (more elegant) way.


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Matijn Woudt<tijnema@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, georg<georg.chambert@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Hi,

I have tried to find a way to check if a character string is possible to
test whether it is convertible to an intger !

any suggestion ?

BR georg


You could use is_numeric for that, though it also accepts floats.

- Matijn



for that type of test I have always used this:

if ( $val == (int)$val ) {

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php#language.types.integer.casting


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