[drupal-devel] What the difference between '==' and '==='

[Scott Courtney]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:11, Carl McDade wrote:
> Hmm,
> 
> After I wrote that last post I realized that booleans may be effected
> also. You might check this:
> 
> 0 == FALSE; //true
> 0 === FALSE; //false

Which is one of the main reasons for the existence of "===". Some functions,
such as some of the string searches, can return zero as a real data value if
they happen to match on the first character of a string, but they also return
FALSE if they don't match at all. "===" provides the calling routine a way to
distinguish between 0 and FALSE.

It can also be used to distinguish, with some of the more complex data types
such as strings, whether two reference variables are for the *same* item or
for two *different* items that have the identical contents.

Scott

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