On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:27:33AM -0400, Matt Pelmear wrote:
> My questions are:
> 1) What is the advantage to converting both strings to ints to compare them?
It makes things easy for working on what comes back from a form (in $_POST/...).
It is a nice feature, and works well *most* of the time.
I do wish that the Perl way of doing it had been used, ie:
== numeric compare
eq text compare
It solves many problems at the cost of a little more developer clue.
I suppose that the proper way is to use as you say:
if( (string) $a === (string) $b ) .....
or strcmp()
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