Re: OT : filtering the aioe spam

At Thu, 31 May 2007 12:08:11 +0100, Toby A Inkster let h(is|er) monkeys
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Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote:

"strcmp('apples','oranges') is -1"

Technically, PHP doesn't guarantee this -- just that the return value will
be less than 0. It could be -42.

You are completely right Toby. Which makes me wonder why there's such a
loose definition of the retval, and what is actually stored in it inside
the func.

Sig fixed anyways.
;-)

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"strcmp('apples','oranges') < 0"

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