Re: Subtracting Money
| From: | Sascha Cunz | Date: | Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:37:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Subtracting Money | ||
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Hi Stephen,
> I'm having a problem. I need to subtract money, but if they type in an
> ammount such as $2.30 and I subtract $0.20, instead of returning $2.10 like
> it should, it returns $2.1. How can I fix this keeping in mind that other
> variable could be $2.40 or $100.30 and so on...?
This is because, 2.1 is equal to 2.10 :-) You need to format the numbers in
the way you want them.
have a look at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php
and/or
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php
both of them should do that job.
sprintf's Example 6:
$money1 = 68.75;
$money2 = 54.35;
$money = $money1 + $money2;
// echo $money will output "123.1";
$formatted = sprintf("%01.2f", $money);
// echo $formatted will output "123.10"
-Sascha