Ford, Mike wrote:
On 03 May 2007 12:30, OKi98 wrote:
I know about identity operator (===) but with == operator 0 is false
and "foo" is true
No, that's not correct.
, try this:
$foo=0;
$bar="bar";
if ($foo) echo("$foo is true, ");
else echo("$foo is false, ");
if ($bar) echo("$bar is true, ");
else echo("$bar is false, ");
if ($foo==$bar) echo("$foo==$bar");
returns "0 is false, bar is true, 0==$bar"
That's because you've got loads of implicit type conversions going on there, so you're not comparing like with like.
For if ($foo) ... and if ($bar) ...:
within the context of the if(), both $foo and $bar are implicitly converted to Boolean:
- (bool)0 is FALSE
- (bool)"any non-empty() string" is TRUE
On the other hand, for if ($foo==$bar) ...:
in the context of the == comparison, $bar is converted to a number, and any string not beginning with a numeric character converts to numeric zero -- so you get a comparison of zero with zero, which is, of course, TRUE!
oh I didnt know that, I thought the number will be converted into a
string. Thanks alot.
I have one more question but I ask in separate thread :)
Oki98
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