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Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 17:58:31 +0200
From: Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan>
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Subject: Re: bug in  is_numeric
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On 12-05-2013 17:31, Salvatore wrote:
> On 2013-05-12, fred <email@address.com> wrote:
>> Using PHP 5.3.6 on win7-74
>>
>> if(is_numeric('x11.11c')  returns  TRUE
>> and variations eg: z1111x is also true
>>
>> this does not seem right to me.
>> I've done a search but cant find mention in buglist.
>>
>> Perhaps someone more knowledgable can deal with this.
>> I've tried to mention elsewhere but PHP.net seems to be going
>> out of its way to make life impossible
>>
>
> You are correct. That parameter, when passed to is_numeric(), should
> return false. I tried it on Mac OS X and FreeBSD, but not on Windows.
>
> Could you try the following code and let me know what comes out?
>
> <?php $a = is_numeric('x11.11c'); var_dump($a); ?>
>
>

luuk@opensuse:~/tmp> php test.php
bool(false)
luuk@opensuse:~/tmp>

(just to make it complete)