Re: [PHP] variable type - conversion/checking
[email protected] (Jim Lucas)
| Newsgroups | php.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 03/14/2013 11:50 AM, Samuel Lopes Grigolato wrote: > Something like "if (is_numeric($var)&& $var == floor($var))" will do the > trick. I don't know if there's a better (more elegant) way. > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Matijn Woudt<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, georg<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have tried to find a way to check if a character string is possible to >>> test whether it is convertible to an intger ! >>> >>> any suggestion ? >>> >>> BR georg >> >> >> You could use is_numeric for that, though it also accepts floats. >> >> - Matijn >> > for that type of test I have always used this: if ( $val == (int)$val ) { http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php#language.types.integer.casting -- Jim Lucas http://www.cmsws.com/ http://www.cmsws.com/examples/