ID: 8325
Comment by: papercrane at reversefold dot com
Reported By: cynic at mail dot cz
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (19/12/2000)
New Comment:
Why exactly is this important? You can still access the array fine
can't you?
$arr["8"] = 2;
echo $arr["8"];
That works fine for me.
Perhaps you have numbers longer than that that it's choking on? It
seems that if you add a 0 at the beginning, PHP will leave it as a
string.
$arr["08"] = 2;
var_dump($arr);
Previous Comments:
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[2004-05-19 02:15:11] alternateduh at hotmail dot com
Just a question... Why is this the decided upon behavior? Is there
any way to implement a flexible/variable "struct"-like data structure
with the ability to have numeric strings ("8") that aren't converted to
ints/longs? This unfortunately is now a serious issue for my company,
and I'm pulling out my hair! :( any help/advice?
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[2003-08-10 20:16:39] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
Indexes with numerical vales (zero or positive) are casted to integer.
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[2003-02-08 12:36:42] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Related to bug #21918
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[2000-12-19 15:54:22] cynic at mail dot cz
(Actually, this is for PHP 4 versions up to 4.0.4 RC6, but it ain't in
the version list.)
I don't want to sound harsh or something, and this behavior seemed to
be accepted as feature from what I saw elsewhere in the bug database
(can't find it, though), but I think it shouldn't be that way.
Current behavior:
<?
$p = 1 ;
settype( $p , 'string' ) ;
$a = array( $p => 'aaaa' ) ;
var_dump( $a ) ;
?>
output (note: casting within the array() doesn't help):
string(1) "1"
array(1) {
[1]=>
string(4) "aaaa"
}
'Right' (YMMV) behavior:
string(1) "1"
array(1) {
["1"]=>
string(4) "aaaa"
}
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