Re: Formatting Decimals
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:56:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Formatting Decimals | ||
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Rick Dwyer wrote:
> I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent.
>
> So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0
> If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it
> gets rounded up to full cents.
>
> Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware
> of the logic to configure this accordingly.
Yes, this can be done, but you'll need to write a function to do it
yourself. I'd also suggest you look into the BCMath functions, at:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.bc.php
Paul
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Paul M. Foster