note 84590 modified in function.floatval by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:53:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 84590 modified in function.floatval by danbrown | ||
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Most of the functions listed here that deal with $ and , are unnecessarily complicated. You can use
ereg_replace() to strip out ALL of the characters that will cause floatval to fail in one simple
line of code:
<?php $output = floatval(ereg_replace("[^-0-9\.]","",$input)); ?>
--was--
Most of the functions listed here that deal with $ and , are unnecessarily complicated. You can use
ereg_replace() to strip out ALL of the characters that will cause floatval to fail in one simple
line of code:
<? $output = floatval(ereg_replace("[^-0-9\.]","",$input)); ?>
http://php.net/manual/en/function.floatval.php