From: ryanhollett at hotmail dot com
Operating system: Windows XP sp2
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: Issue with min function when a numeric sting is passed in.
Description:
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>From the php documentation for the min function "PHP will evaluate a
non-numeric string as 0, but still return the string if it's seen as the
numerically lowest value."
It seems that this is incorrect. When a non-numeric string and a numeric
string are passed in, the numeric string seems to be returned as the the
min value.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
echo min("a", "2");
echo "\n";
echo min("2", "a");
echo "\n";
echo min("a", "-2");
echo "\n";
echo min("-2", "a");
?>
Expected result:
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a
a
-2
-2
Actual result:
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2
2
-2
-2
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Not enough info:
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Submitted twice:
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PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38883&r=php3
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