Hi folks,

A strange one - unless I am having a brainstorm...

I am reading in tab delimited files created in Excel on Windows and
uploaded to Linux.

Cell A1 contains a numeric id - I extract this into a variable, $id,
by exploding on \n and \t.

But for some files, the values of $id do not behave as expected. Say
the value should be "23".

If I echo, it prints as "23". But comparisons fail to match:

if( $id == 23 ) ...

It also fails if I try to find the value as a key in an
array:

if( isset( $my_array[$id] ) ) ...

On the other hand, values from some of the files work as expected.

One clue: if I try and cast the values that are failing to int, the
cast produces the value 0 (zero). On the other hand, the values that
are working as expected cast from, say, the string 22 to the int 22 as
expected.

Never seen anything like this before - can anyone give me a pointer??

-- 

Geoff Caplan
Advantae Ltd


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