Re: Thousands Separator

Jeffry Killen wrote: > On Jan 16, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Christoph Becker wrote: > >> Jeffry Killen wrote: >> >>> Sorry, there is a misunderstanding on my part here: >>> On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Jeffry Killen wrote: >>> > Actually what should work with settype is >>>> $num = '123_456_789'; >>>> settype(str_replace('_', '', $num), 'int') >>>> > settype should coerce the data type in place to an int. (of float if you > use 'float' as the second argument to settype settype()'s first parameter is supposed to be passed by reference, but values can't generally be passed by reference. > I got this to work > <?php > > $num = '123_456_789'; > $num = str_replace('_', '', $num); > settype($num, 'int'); > print "\$num += 1: ".$num += 1; > ?> Yes, that works because you're passing a variable as first argument to settype(). However, in this special case you don't need settype() at all; the following has the same result: <?php $num = '123_456_789'; $num = str_replace('_', '', $num); print "\$num += 1: ".$num += 1; That is because the addition operator (+) "juggles" its operands to numeric values, anyway. If you would replace the print statement with a call to var_dump(), like so: var_dump($num); calling settype() before would make a difference, though. -- Christoph M. Becker