PHP 5.2 is treating negative numbers as strings

[Belrick]

Hi!

Thankyou for reading.

Im pulling numbers off of a csv file.

In PHP 5.4 there isnt a problem.

In PHP 5.2 on a linux server that i have no means of access, -100.00 is not seen as numeric, is displayed as (100.00) and if i try and typecast or add/subtract etc it becomes 0.

Really suspect its a bug with this PHP release but im stuck with it!

Can anyone offer any suggestions? Google for the first time ever re: PHP came up empty! Surely im not the only one who has encountered this issue.

Please help!

[NogDog]

Any chance you're depending on the (optional) 5th parameter to fgetcsv()? It was added in 5.3.0.

[Belrick]

Just using while (($data[$row] = fgetcsv($handle, 0, ",")) !== FALSE) {

Have noticed after openign the csv in notepad++ that the negative numbers are bracketed with "

Going to try file get contents instead. Really just grasping at any straws at this point!

[Belrick]

Definately the "" which is causing the grief with 5.2

They are added by excel since they are formatted as currency(, in thousands)