ID: 32943 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: pmorgan at ukds dot net Status: Bogus -Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem +Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.3.10 New Comment:
reopen this as documentation bug. "number" could also be given in e-notation, hex-notation, octal-notation Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-04 14:40:54] pmorgan at ukds dot net That needs to go into the manual "number in e-notation", which I understand, or even better as an additional flag "allow_e-notation". It's the last error I would have expected and is very misleading AFAIK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-04 14:40:45] pmorgan at ukds dot net That needs to go into the manual "number in e-notation", which I understand, or even better as an additional flag "allow_e-notation". It's the last error I would have expected and is very misleading AFAIK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-04 14:30:10] [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 3e0 is a number in e-notation, which is of course a numerical string ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-04 12:29:00] pmorgan at ukds dot net typo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-04 12:28:04] pmorgan at ukds dot net Description: ------------ With some server side validation I inadvertenly entered "3e0" into the textbox, it validated to my suprise. Would have expected this to throw a false Reproduce code: --------------- echo is_numeric('3e00')? 'true': 'false'; Expected result: ---------------- false; In fact anything without 0-9 and a . I would expect a false ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32943&edit=1
