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		BerislavLopac on June 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP WTF: A PHP Annoyance Posted Every Day The funny thing is that in Javascript: 12 == parseInt('012') returns false. :)

mhansen on June 20, 2009 [–]

A leading zero usually means 'this number is octal', so parseInt returns 10. Not very intuitive notation, however.

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