Re: Beware of round() function

Thanks for the info, Jeremy. Regardless of the technical details, my code still broke. I am little discouraged that an operation that should be so simple has these sorts of gotchas. BTW, I ended up casting to int as my solution. Kirk Jeremy Privett <jeremy@omegavortex.net> wrote on 03/24/2008 02:04:48 PM: > Jeremy Privett wrote: > > Kirk.Johnson@zootweb.com wrote: > >> Beware: round() apparently has changed its behavior from PHP 4. > > > > This is actually a change in the behavior of the float type, not the > > round function. Replace your round() with a cast to float and you'll > > see the exact same result. > > > > Also, as a side-note, the only way I've found to get these numbers to > print properly is through either printf or sprintf. Also, you could cast > back to an integer, if you explicitly don't need floats.