Clarify intval() behavior with scientific notation numeric strings #5098
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…into doc-intval-scientific-notation # Conflicts: # reference/var/functions/intval.xml
Co-authored-by: Gina Peter Banyard <[email protected]>
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This PR clarifies how intval() behaves when passed numeric strings using scientific notation.
While this behavior is documented in the Numeric strings section, it was not explicitly referenced from the intval() manual page,
which could lead to confusion.
A short note and example have been added to make this behavior easier to discover.
Issue: #5019