Re: number_format() = "-0.00"
| From: | Alex Bowers | Date: | Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:07:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: number_format() = "-0.00" | ||
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Php doesn't have a concept of negative zero except in a string instance.
And the main use case for this is displaying the number as a string which
has very few real world use cases as being a negative zero.
On 25 Nov 2016 9:05 am, "Craig Duncan" <php@duncanc.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25 November 2016 at 08:58, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure this is covered by the language reference [
> > http://php.net/language.types.float] as per precision of
> > floating point
> > numbers in PHP. Though I don't see much harm in adding a note with
> > references there to the documentation for number_format(), if that's what
> > you meant.
> >
>
> Yeh, I'd imagine that's where most people will go looking when they
> encounter this issue
>