Re: Need unrounded precision

On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:

bitwise right shift is probably the fastest cast to int so far ... still in many languages, intval is a function call being a cast in both cases (int) is good as well ... bitwise, casting, works with strings, arrays, boolean, whatever as well. I don't think there is any difference in php, except when the integer is "too big" ... but this was not the case, we had to deal with 1 to 10 :-) Regards

From: jbozza@mindsites.com To: an_red@hotmail.com CC: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:33:10 -0500 Subject: RE: [PHP] Need unrounded precision

Hmmm... Didn't think about this, but % only works with int values

it was just future prof precaution since this statement is false for many other languages. In few words I am not sure PHP6 does the same ... never mind so far

Good to know. In that case, I would probably just use intval() instead of >> since it's clearer and bitwise shifts aren't necessarily integer only either. Jaime

I like the bitwise shifting, but here's another potential (albeit probably slower) solution. $a = 28.56018; list (,$dec) = explode ('.', $a); $b = $dec{0}; Cheers, ~Philip