Re: Working with numbers
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Thu, 03 May 2001 11:55:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Working with numbers | ||
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On Thursday 03 May 2001 08:53, Jennifer wrote:
> I have a shopping cart that allows decimal points for quantities.
> I like it like that, but would like to remove any trailing zeros
> and if the quantity is not a fraction I would like to remove the
> decimal point too.
>
> What would be the easiest way to do this? I don't see any
> function that would make it easy.
It's so easy that you don't need a function for it :)
$Qty = "12.470";
$Qty_real = (double) $Qty;
echo "$Qty - $Qty_real";
In other words - convert it from a strin to a floating-point number and
PHP will do the rest.
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