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[Dell Sala]

On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Jakob Buchgraber wrote:

> I'd like to cast a string "false" to a boolean.
> So is there a way to cast such a string to a boolean (without using  
> conditions)?

The string "false" will evaluate to true, any way you slice it. The  
only strings that evaluate to false are "" and "0".

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.boolean.php

I suppose you could eval the string... But you should think hard  
before doing this. I can't image a justification for it. If you're  
getting input for a false value as "false" you should really use some  
kind of conditional statement.

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