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[PHP-DOC] #22565 [NEW]: max not returning a number From: csaba at alum dot mit dot edu (phpdoc <email protected>)
Date: 03/06/03

From: csaba at alum dot mit dot edu
Operating system: All
PHP version: 4.3.0
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: max not returning a number

max(array("tdCommon", 0)) => "tdCommon" // not a number

The documentation at php.net/max claims:
If one or more of the values is a float, all the values will be treated as
floats, and a float is returned. If none of the values is a float, all of
them will be treated as integers, and an integer is returned.

Evidently, the behaviour of this function was intended to change
(extrapolating from http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=2676 (bug # 2676)).

This should be reflected in the documentation. (I was trying to get the
key of the most recent element I had created in a "semi-associative" array
by $array[] = $newVal and max as advertised would have done the trick.
Could it still work? I don't know, because I don't really know what it's
supposed to be doing anymore. For example, what type of sort is being
done now?).

Csaba Gabor 

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