RE: [PHP-DB] Comparing Two Values

It is working now using === or !== Thanks a lot. Andre -- Andre Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 8:10 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Comparing Two

Re: [PHP-DB] Comparing Two Values

To be honest, I havn't had much use for it myself but I've done a lot of 'hack' projects that didn't need to be this specific. But as I understand, you might want to use the triple-equal sign to determine if they're exactly the same. Are you comparing... 2 with... 0002 (integer versus a

Re: [PHP-DB] Comparing Two Values

Andre Matos wrote: Hi List, I was comparing two values, a current value with a new value to build the UPDATE instruction and I faced this: Current value: 2 == new value: 0002 in short, assuming that both the variables are not integers (i.e. 2 is equal to 0002) you should use === if you

RE: [PHP-DB] Comparing Two Values

PHP implicitly casts the variables to be the same here...in this case the integer 2...if you want to force it to compare as text then you need to ensure that both variables are cast as text see here (http://ca3.php.net/language.types.type-juggling ) bastien From: Andre Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED]