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Question

I'm having an issue with PHP for loop, if the initial point number is too long, it will be considered as Float, how to solve it?

for ($i=3435764359345435874356345973457392; $i <= 7674664832038037428010029546434709302726; $i++) { 
  Code
}

This will output an error "3.8338983631591E+74" can't open the resource.

How to force it to consider it as an integer no matter what the longest number is.

Best answer

You can use the strval() function to convert a number to a string. but in your case It's been suggested to use GNU Multiple Precision, but that's not enabled in PHP by default.

$int=gmp_init("10000000000000000000000000");
$string=gmp_strval($int);
echo $string;

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