4 ms·And a forced cast is therefore a bad way to generally parse a user-provided string to int.by dvdkon 4y agoAnd a forced cast is therefore a bad way to generally parse a user-provided string to int.Y-bar 4y agoSo why do you insist on using it that way?dvdkon 4y agoI don't. I asked for an int parsing function, got (int)$val as a suggestion, so I had to explain why it doesn't fit the bill.