This is correct. The type casting converts the string into its integer
value. If there is a non-numeric character in the string, it stops at that
point. So "09" is 9 and "09t" is 9 but "0t9" is 0.
Brian Moon
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From: "Lars Torben Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Integer casts broken or...?
>
> Type casting to int from string works only for decimal values--is this
> by design? Example:
>
> echo (int) '09' . ', ' . (int) '0x24';
>
> ...produces:
>
> 9, 0
>
> which seems intuitively wrong (I'd have expected 0, 36).
>
> Is this wrong, or should I just document it?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Torben
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