note 76640 deleted from function.floatval by bjori

Note Submitter: freddy at ff dot net Reason: bad code ---- leprau at leprau dot de contained some spelling errors, here's an optimized version: [php] function atof($sFloat) { if(strlen($sFloat)==0) return 0; if(is_numeric($sFloat)) return (float)$sFloat; if((int)strpos($sFloat,'.')<(int)strpos($sFloat,',')) preg_match('#(([-]?[0-9]+(\.[0-9])?)+(,[0-9]+)?)#', $sFloat,$afDotFor1k); else preg_match('#(([-]?[0-9]+(,[0-9])?)+(\.[0-9]+)?)#', $sFloat,$afCommaFor1k); if(isset($afDotFor1k[0])) return (float)str_replace(',','.', str_replace('.','',$afDotFor1k[0])); elseif(isset($afCommaFor1k[0])) return str_replace(',','',$afCommaFor1k[0]); else return 0; } [/php] Output would become: 1,234=1.234 1.234=1.234 1.234,56=1234.56 1,234.56=1234.56 EUR 1,234.56=1234.56 EUR 1.234,56=1234.56 1234=1234 EUR -1,234.56=-1234.56 Note that in the case of 1,234 and 1.234 its impossible to know which format is used (English or on case of my country; Dutch). You could fetch this from the locale, but in my case I couldn't, since the input data comes from a plain text datasource.