On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:41, John W. Holmes wrote: > Greg Beaver wrote: > > > http://www.php.net/is_numeric > > > > is the function you are looking for. No need for fancy regexps. > > The OP is looking for an integer, but is_numeric() will return true for > float values and also for numbers in scientific notation. So "12.3" and > "12E3" will be TRUE. > > The original $number != intval($number) should work for detecting bad > input.
This doesn't work John, because the the != will convert the $number to an intval for the comparison; however, after reflecting on your code and the style you used.. hte following will work :) $foo = '123fooo'; if( trim( $foo ) != ''.intval( $foo ) ) { echo "Not same beast!\n"; } else { echo "Same beast!\n"; } Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php