note 109790 added to function.is-float

Yet another regular expression for float in real life: function isTrueFloat($val) { $pattern = '/^[-+]?(((\d+)\.?(\d+)?)|\.\d+)+([eE]?[+-]?\d+)?$/'; return (!is_bool($val) && (is_float($val) || preg_match($pattern, trim($val)))); } // Matches: 1, -1, 1.0, -1.0, '1', '-1', '1.0', '-1.0', '2.1', '0', 0, ' 0 ', ' 0.1 ', ' -0.0 ', -0.0, 3., '-3.', '.27', .27, '-0', '+4', '1e2', '+1353.0316547', '13213.032468e-13465', '-8E+3', '-1354.98879e+37436' // Non-matches: false, true, '', '-', '.a', '-1.a', '.a', '.', '-.', '1+', '1.3+', 'a1', 'e.e', '-e-4', 'e2', '8e', '3,25' ---- Server IP: 62.149.26.211 Probable Submitter: 93.75.224.66 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-float.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109790 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109790/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109790/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109790/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109790/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109790/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109790/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109790 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109790 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php