Posted by Nuzzo Art-CINT116 on 09/30/67 11:07

>
> Possible work-around:
> I suspect that
> $p1[14] = "-0.15" + 0;
> will do what you want, since the leading 0 will probably
> trigger the regex properly.
>
> Try it and see.

Changing it to -0.15 + 0 works. This data is actually coming from a numeric field in an Oracle database using the OCI interface so I am not sure why it's a string instead of a number but that's a separate issue I need to look into.


>
> PS You should probably have posted the PHP version and
> whatnot as well, as I wouldn't be surprised if the bug is
> version-specific...
>
>

Ah... Yes, I meant to include that information:

HP-UX: 11.11
PHP: 4.3.9


Art Nuzzo

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