Posted by Jordan Miller on 10/21/05 23:11

Also, look at this function:
http://www.php.net/ctype_digit

Jordan


On Oct 21, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Chris Knipe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Uhm... Let's take the below quickly:
>
> Function DoSomething($Blah) {
> $Blah = (int) $Blah;
> return $Blah
> }
>
> $Blah, cannot be larger than 2147483647, and sometimes, I get negative
> integers back from the above function.
>
> This is with PHP 4.4.0 on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. Can anyone else perhaps
> confirm this, and if it is indeed true, is this a bug, or a limitation
> somewhere on PHP? Any other ways to confirm that *large* numbers, are
> indeed integers? I'm working with numbers in the form of yyyymmddsss
> (20051025001 for today for example)
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>
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