At 02:36 30.01.2003, Webapprentice said:
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>Hi,
>I have a conditional:
>if (a == b)
>
>a is the number 0, but b is a string "Friday August 22".
>
>The condition is evaluating as true, which is not what I want.
>What am I misunderstanding?
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PHP tries to "help" you - you can only compare data of the same type. So
PHP goes ahead and casts this for you, a string to int in this case.
If you compare it using "===" (typesafe comparison) you will get correct
results.
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