From:             marek at lewczuk dot com
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5.0.3
PHP Bug Type:     Arrays related
Bug description:  Array keys converted from float to integer

Description:
------------
Suppose we have a float value: $value = 345.332 and we want to use this
value as an array key: $array[$value] = $value. This will cause that key
will be truncated to integer 345 not to string "345.332". It is written in
the manual that:

"...A key may be either an integer or a string. If a key is the standard
representation of an integer, it will be interpreted as such (i.e. "8"
will be interpreted as 8, while "08" will be interpreted as "08")..."

>From this point of view floats should be converted to strings. I'm not
saying that this is a bug, rather I would like to be sure if this is a
proper behavior. Simple solution is to type cast float value to string
(string), but we have to know that given value is a float (and sometimes,
we don't know that). IMHO any other type than integer should be treat as
string.



Reproduce code:
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$value = 345.654;
$array = array();
$array[$value] = "Float";

Expected result:
----------------
array (
 "345.654" => "Float"
)

Actual result:
--------------
array (
 "345" => "Float"
)

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PHP 3 support discontinued:  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32671&r=php3
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Floating point limitations:  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32671&r=float
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MySQL Configuration Error:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32671&r=mysqlcfg

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