Re: Thousands Separator

Jeffry Killen wrote: > Sorry, there is a misunderstanding on my part here: > On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Jeffry Killen wrote: > >> Here is some more that you may find useful: >> >> In your hypothetical example: >> $num = '123_456_789', >> $num is a string. >> and I presume you mean that this is hard coded into your source file >> code and you want to be able to read the source code with greater ease. >> So you can hard code it this way and if you want to use the value as an >> actual number in some mathmatical processing: >> > settype does not return anything accept true or false. One could use intval()/floatval() or an (int)/(float) cast instead. >> settype(str_replace('_', '', '123_456_789'), >> 'int'); >> >> or-- >> $num = '123_456_789'; >> function use($num) >> { >> settype(str_replace('_', '', $num), 'int') >> } >> $num = use($num); >> >> Or settype( string, 'float') if there is a decimal fraction involved. -- Christoph M. Becker