From: "William Lovaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I guess that works but every possible solution posted in this thread is
> a lot of lines of code to perform a simple validation.
>
> PHP should offer/modify the appropriate API to do this. I remember that
> is_numeric() didn't exist before.
>
> Something like:
> is_float_string(mixed value)
>
> or modify is_numeric() to explictly perform an integer validation:
> is_numeric(mixed value [, bool is_integer = false])
>
> is_numeric("5.5", true) ==> false, "5.5" is not an integer string
> is_numeric("10", true) ==> true
>
> May be filing a bug report will do the trick. ;-)
Don't add more bloat to the code. Don't be afraid of actually using a couple
of lines to accomplish something instead of demanding a "built-in" function.
---John Holmes...
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