Comments on: Beware the zero! http://the-stickman.com/web-development/beware-the-zero/ Random developer notes Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:35:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Richard Davies http://the-stickman.com/web-development/beware-the-zero/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Richard Davies Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:12:20 +0000 http://the-stickman.com/web-development/beware-the-zero/#comment-749 Thanks for the blog post. I just encountered a similar issue with JavaScript today, and because I remembered reading your blog post a few days ago I was able to quickly identify the problem. It turns out JS treats numbers like PHP does. I was using the parseInt() function to convert several strings of numbers to integers. It worked fine for "01" - "07", but returned 0 for "08" and "09". Thanks for the blog post. I just encountered a similar issue with JavaScript today, and because I remembered reading your blog post a few days ago I was able to quickly identify the problem.

It turns out JS treats numbers like PHP does. I was using the parseInt() function to convert several strings of numbers to integers. It worked fine for “01″ – “07″, but returned 0 for “08″ and “09″.

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