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From: Sandman <mr@sandman.net>
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Subject: Re: bug in  is_numeric
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:34:31 +0200
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In article <MPG.2bf9b5f139f7cb7d9896aa@news.virginmedia.com>,
 fred <email@address.com> wrote:

> if(is_numeric('x11.11c')  returns  TRUE
> and variations eg: z1111x is also true

Nope, as others have pointed out, works as it should:

sandman@dream ~> uname -a
Darwin dream.sandman.net 12.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.3.0: Sun Jan  6 
22:37:10 PST 2013; root:xnu-2050.22.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

sandman@dream ~> php -v
PHP 5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Aug 24 2012 17:45:44) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

sandman@dream ~> php -r 'var_dump(is_numeric("x11.11c"));'
bool(false)


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