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Yuhang Lin
Yuhang Lin

Reputation: 159

Why does addition "+" of two strings in PHP produce this result?

In PHP, "aaa" + "bbb" would produce 0.

I know that to concatenate two strings in PHP, I need to use .. But I don't know why does addition + of two strings in PHP produce this result?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 208

Answers (1)

AbraCadaver
AbraCadaver

Reputation: 79004

When you use arithmetic operators on non-numbers then PHP casts them to integer type. PHP is sort of smart, so string "1" would be cast to integer 1 and string "1.0" would be cast to float, however "aaa" would be cast to integer 0, as well as "bbb". So both cast to 0 is 0 + 0 which obviously is 0.

See PHP: String conversion to numbers.

As of PHP 7.1.0 this generates:

Warning: A non-numeric value encountered

However, this is fine since they are numeric though not a numeric type (strings):

var_dump("1" + "2");

Upvotes: 7

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