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Doc Bug #2965 The <= operator does not work properly on characters.
Submitted: 1999-12-13 10:09 UTC Modified: 2002-11-30 10:22 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:2.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: fred at webblake dot com Assigned: hholzgra (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4 OS: Redhat Linux 6.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-12-13 10:09 UTC] fred at webblake dot com 
for($i = 'A'; $i <= 'Z' ; $i++)
   echo "$i<br>\n";

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 [2002-09-30 16:49 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
it may look strange but it is intended behaviour
 [2002-09-30 19:48 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
changed to documentation problem and reopened until verified
 [2002-11-30 10:22 UTC] pollita@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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PHP follows Perl convention when performing arithmetic operations on character values.  Explanation added in PHP-DOCs
 [2002-11-30 20:36 UTC] pcgod at gmx dot net 
even if this is the intended behaviour there is one problem left:
the loop stops at YZ and therefore you should assume that 'YZ' == 'Z' but echo ('YZ' == 'Z'?1:0); returns 0
 
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