Re: [PHP] A silly question. :P

On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 11:50 PM, GENESiS DESiGNS wrote: > I would like to know why you put this character (!) in front of this: Nearly unanimously to all programming languages, the bang (!) symbol indicates "not" or "negative" or "inverse" or "not true". So you use it when you want

Re: [PHP] A silly question. :P

Greetings Sean, The ! in front of strcasecmp means, "if strcasecmp returns zero." If you look at the reference manual for strcasecmp and strcmp, you'll see that it returns zero if the two strings are equivalent -- somewhat of a strange return value, but (1) that's how C/C++ do it; and (2) it h

RE: [PHP] A silly question. :P

> I would like to know why you put this character (!) in front of this: An ! means that the following statement should be false. So: if (!isset($variable)) means "If $variable is not set" Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.