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Bug #48573 E-notated strings improperly cast as integers
Submitted: 2009-06-16 19:08 UTC Modified: 2017-10-24 18:36 UTC
From: josh at mykoala dot com Assigned: jhdxr (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.2.9 OS: Mac OS X 10.5.7
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-06-16 19:08 UTC] josh at mykoala dot com 
Description:
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When an E notated integer is in a string, and you try to cast it to an integer, the value stops at anything non-integer, reducing the ability to cast notated numbers.  It does not first check or convert the value to a float to account for E notation.

The documentation on type juggling doesn't mention this limitation, and it is not the expected result.

Reproduce code:
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$ php -r 'var_dump((int)"5.6401418785e+05");'
int(5)
$ php -r 'var_dump((int)5.6401418785e+05);'
int(564014)
$ php -r 'var_dump((int)(float)"5.6401418785e+05");'
int(564014)

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 [2009-06-16 19:54 UTC] josh at mykoala dot com 
> When an E notated integer

When an E notated float*

intval() on the string also (predictably) produces the same result as casting to int
 [2009-06-23 19:57 UTC] sjoerd-php at linuxonly dot nl 
Thank you for your bug report.

A workaround for what you want is adding 0:
php -r 'echo 0 + "5.6401418785e+05";'
564014.18785
 [2009-06-23 20:14 UTC] josh at mykoala dot com 
Well, round() produces the desired result -- the large number without any decimals.  Adding zero just casts to float, which takes the decimals into consideration, and is the same as:

$ php -r 'var_dump((float)"5.6401418785e+05");'
float(564014.18785)

It's that conversion to int directly that makes Iron Eyes Cody cry.
 [2017-10-24 18:36 UTC] jhdxr@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: jhdxr
 [2017-10-24 18:36 UTC] jhdxr@php.net 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at 
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

fixed since 7.1.0, see https://3v4l.org/ojX04
 
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