Re: Thoughts on Feature Request - Arithmetic

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 16:44 +0100, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Nathan Rixham 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 > > What's wrong with eval? > > <?php > eval( '$res = 3 * 5;' ); > echo $res, "\n"; Maybe it's from user input? And it is generally taught that if eval() is the solution then you're on the wrong track. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................