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steve
steve

Reputation: 586

sort an array contain number and letter

when sort an array with letter and number, like below:
$a = array(0, 1, 'a', 'A'); sort($a); print_r($a);

the result confuse me like that:

Array ( [0] => a [1] => 0 [2] => A [3] => 1 )

why the '0' between in 'a' and 'A'?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1126

Answers (1)

tyjkenn
tyjkenn

Reputation: 719

When you do that, the numbers are converted to a string. Number character ASCII values come between the two cases.

The strings are converted to numbers. It takes any number characters at the beginning and drops everything else to compare, unless it finds '.','E', or 'e', which can be used for floating-point conversion. If it finds no numeric characters, it evaluates to zero.

Upvotes: 1

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