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Question

In my code, I have generated an associative array with keys as floats, however the PHP documentation states that when they become key's in the array they are SUPPOSED to be cast to integers. Instead, they are being cast to strings (which is actually better for me so I'm not complaining).

The problem is that when I try to access these keys using a float as the key value, it casts only the floats with .5 to integers and creates a new entry in the array. Seems like peculiar behavior.

Example:

var_dump( $array );

Output:

array(9) {
[0] =>
int(0)
[1.25] =>
int(0)
[2.5] =>
int(0)
....}

When I try to access the value 2.5 like so,

array[2.5]++;

a new entry in the array is made at array[2] However if I try to access the array at array[1.25]++; I successfully add 1 to the value at key: 1.25

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I would just stick with strings all the time:

$a = array(
    '0' => 0,
    '1.25' => 0,
    '2.5' => 0
);

$a['2.5']++;
echo $a['2.5'] . "\n";
var_dump($a);

Output is:

1
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  int(0)
  ["1.25"]=>
  int(0)
  ["2.5"]=>
  int(1)
}