Re: [PHP] variable type - conversion/checking

On 03/15/2013 02:33 PM, richard gray wrote:
> On 15/03/2013 22:00, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 04:57 -0500, tamouse mailing lists wrote:
>>
>>
>> For my money, `is_numeric()` does just what I want.
>>
>>
>> The thing is, is_numeric() will not check if a string is a valid int,
>> but any valid number, including a float.
>>
>> For something like this, wouldn't a regex be better?
>>
>> if(preg_match('/^\-?\d+$/', $string))
>> echo int
>>
> I'm late in on this thread so apologies if I have missed something here
> .. but wouldn't is_int() do what the OP wants?
>
> rich
>
>

Nope, because the OP wants to test if a variable, that is a string, 
could be converted to an integer.  Not if a variable is an integer.

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