Re: Preserving Decimals

Hey guys, I missed the majority of this thread but judging from the subject you might want to look at number_format(). Like I said, that might be totally off-base but I didn't catch most of this thread.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Zak Greant <zak@nucleus.com> To: Yoed Anis <yoed@zarcrom.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-GENERAL] Preserving Decimals > At 05:05 PM 6/16/00 -0500, Yoed Anis wrote: > >Thanks a lot Zak! > >This helped me correct the problem. > >Finally after hours..... ;-) > > Hi Yeod, > > I am very glad to help! When I first ran into the same problem a bit over > 2 years ago, I had a devil of a time with it. Instead of figuring out how > to use s/printf, I ended up coming up with a solution like this. :) > > function OO ($number) > { > list ($integer, $remainder) = explode ('.', $number); > > switch ( strlen ($remainder)) > { > case 0: > return $number . '.00'; > break; > > case 1: > return $number . '0'; > break; > > default: > return $integer . '.' . round ("0.$remainder" * 100); > } > } > > When I stumbled across my code again about a year after the project, it > took me a few minutes to figure what it did. I was calling it after every > mathematical operation for all of my calculations with dollar amount! This > was one of my first difficult programming projects and I guess that the 0 > truncating behavior must have had me pretty spooked. The funniest thing is > that I called it OO because one of its primary functions was adding > trailing 0s for numeric values. > > Um... yeah, that is my pointless anecdote for the day - I hope someone else > finds it funny! :) > > > Ciao, > > > Zak Greant > Creative Director > Nucleus Information Service Inc. > > "I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp: I know what I ought to do, > but I don't know where to begin." > - Stephen Bayne > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >