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Bug #30726 Negative floats <1 as strings don't work in calculations
Submitted: 2004-11-09 01:10 UTC Modified: 2005-01-18 01:31 UTC
Votes:4
Avg. Score:4.5 ± 0.9
Reproduced:4 of 4 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (25.0%)
Same OS:1 (25.0%)
From: degusta at yahoo dot com Assigned: iliaa (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Math related
PHP Version: 4CVS, 5CVS (2005-01-10) OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-11-09 01:10 UTC] degusta at yahoo dot com 
Description:
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Strings that are between 0 and -1 and don't have a leading zero, e.g. "-.2", "-.95", etc, do not get cast to floats.

This is a variant of bug 30069 which was closed with 4.3.9. That fix did solve the problem for positive floats (".1", ".4", etc), but apparently not for negative floats.

The bug is still present in CVS as of 11/8/04 (php4-STABLE-200411082130). I haven't checked the 5 branch yet, but my guess is that it's wrong there too since 30069 also existed in the 5 branch.

Every past version of PHP has cast this properly (up through and including 4.3.8).


Reproduce code:
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echo '-.1' * 2;


Expected result:
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-0.2

Actual result:
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0

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 [2005-01-10 17:00 UTC] [email protected] 
See also bug #30069

This works fine with e.g. PHP 4.2.2 :)
 [2005-01-10 21:05 UTC] [email protected] 
Assigned to Ilia per his request.
 [2005-01-18 01:31 UTC] [email protected] 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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