goba Mon Nov 4 06:03:26 2002 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/language types.xml
Log:
Adding more info on float conversion and some
more cross references
Index: phpdoc/en/language/types.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/language/types.xml:1.92 phpdoc/en/language/types.xml:1.93
--- phpdoc/en/language/types.xml:1.92 Mon Nov 4 05:53:41 2002
+++ phpdoc/en/language/types.xml Mon Nov 4 06:03:25 2002
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.92 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.93 $ -->
<chapter id="language.types">
<title>Types</title>
@@ -525,6 +525,17 @@
or <link linkend="ref.gmp">gmp</link> functions instead.
</para>
</warning>
+
+ <!-- TODO: add more info -->
+ <sect2 id="language.types.float.casting">
+ <title>Converting to float</title>
+
+ <para>
+ For information on when and how strings are converted to floats,
+ see the section titled <link linkend="language.types.string.conversion">String
+ conversion to numbers</link>.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="language.types.string">
@@ -1088,6 +1099,12 @@
]]>
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Do not expect to get the code of one character by converting it
+ to integer (as you would do in C for example). Use the functions
+ <function>ord</function> and <function>chr</function> to convert
+ between charcodes and characters.
</para>
</sect2>
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