[RESOLVED] Incrementing operator with variable holding a string type

[jtp51]

PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: May 2 2008 18:02:07)

$a = 'Test';
echo ++$a;

I thought that the string value held in variable "a" would be converted to a numeric data type first.

So, I expected to see the value "1" returned, instead I see the value "Tesu" returned.

Why isn't the variable converted from a string to a numeric data type?

[HalfaBee]

Would you beleive the manual explains what is happening.
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.increment.php

[jtp51]

Yes. I realized that I was thinking of it as what C uses as it's conventions.