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[Scott Mattocks]

Michael Southwell wrote:
> All strings are evaluated as zero unless they begin with a character 
> which can be interpreted as a numeral.  You can test this as follows:

I think to be a little more clear here you have to say, "When a string 
is converted to a number, it will be converted to zero unless it begins 
with a number."

A non-empty string that is converted to a boolean will be converted to 
TRUE. Also, the === operator converts all things to strings and then 
compares the string values to see if the two are equal. Therefore, "str" 
=== 0 becomes "str" == "0" not 0 == 0.

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Scott Mattocks
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