> Hi List,
>
> I was comparing two values, a current value with a new value to build > the UPDATE instruction and I faced this:
>
> Current value: 2 == new value: 0002
in short, assuming that both the variables are not integers (i.e. 2 is equal to 0002) you should use === if you want '002' to not equal '2'.
try the following lines of code:
var_dump(2 === 002);
var_dump('2' === '002');
var_dump('2' == '002');
var_dump(2 == 002);
var_dump(2 == '002');....amazing what a bit of experimentation can teach you....
> > So, PHP is telling me that the current is equal to the new. Is this > possible? Any idea to avoid this problem?
this is not a problem, its the documented behaviour, actually it's the foundation of what makes php so easy to use - namely automatic typecasting and dynamic types (I am probably not explaining that too well).
read the manual to understand more:
http://nl.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php http://nl.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.conversion
BTW: this is not a DB question. ;-)
> > Thanks for any help. > > Andre > > -- > Andre Matos > andre.matos@xxxxxxxxxxxx >
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