Re: Thoughts on Feature Request - Arithmetic

I doubt this is needed in core, but sounds "ok" for an extension. Also, I believe, quite a decent version of this can be written in php (think PEAR) On 12/7/07, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote: > In-Built PHP Functions for parsing of basic arithmetic and if possible > fraction to decimal and decimal to fraction > > $arithmetic_string = "3*5"; > echo arith($arithmetic_string); // returns float 15 > > $arithmetic_string = "1/2"; > echo arith($arithmetic_string); // returns float 0.5 > > $fraction_string = "1/4"; > echo fracdec($fraction_string); // returns float 0.25 > > $dec_string = "0.5"; > echo decfrac($dec_string); // returns string "1/4" > > I've used php for years, came accross the need for this today and was > suprised such a basic command wasn't there.. currently the only way I > can see to do it would be to eval.. which isn't the most secure method > for such a basic need. > > Regards > > Nathan > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/