Re: [PHP] strange empty array behavior being at in_array()

2001-12-24 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
RTFM: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php Peter Vereshagin wrote: > Bogdan Stancescu wrote: > > > > Try in_array('pattern',array('')) and in_array(1,array(0)). The quirk you > > found is predictable, as we know how PHP behaves when converting strings to > > integer valu

Re: [PHP] strange empty array behavior being at in_array()

2001-12-24 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Bogdan Stancescu wrote: > > Try in_array('pattern',array('')) and in_array(1,array(0)). The quirk you > found is predictable, as we know how PHP behaves when converting strings to > integer values... you mean PHP converts string pattern to integer before apply pattern? But what's the kind of te

Re: [PHP] strange empty array behavior being at in_array()

2001-12-24 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Try in_array('pattern',array('')) and in_array(1,array(0)). The quirk you found is predictable, as we know how PHP behaves when converting strings to integer values... And 'pattern' evaluates to 0 -- '55pattern' for example doesn't match -- but then again, what kinda word is that? :-) HTH Bogdan

[PHP] strange empty array behavior being at in_array()

2001-12-24 Thread Peter Vereshagin
I wonder why something non-empty is considered to be an empty array element: === if ( in_array('pattern', array( 0 ) ) ) print "Got it"; === I got the true condition. However, after I populate the array with antries other than 0 and '' the condition fails. I think that would not be PHP erro