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I need to check in PHP if user entered a decimal number (US way, with decimal point: X.XXX)
Any reliable way to do this?
You can get most of what you want from is_float, but if you really need to know whether it has a decimal in it, your function above isn't terribly far (albeit the wrong language):
function is_decimal( $val )
{
return is_numeric( $val ) && floor( $val ) != $val;
}
if you want "10.00" to return true check Night Owl's answer
If you want to know if the decimals has a value you can use this answer.
Works with all kind of types (int, float, string)
if(fmod($val, 1) !== 0.00){
// your code if its decimals has a value
} else {
// your code if the decimals are .00, or is an integer
}
Examples:
(fmod(1.00, 1) !== 0.00) // returns false
(fmod(2, 1) !== 0.00) // returns false
(fmod(3.01, 1) !== 0.00) // returns true
(fmod(4.33333, 1) !== 0.00) // returns true
(fmod(5.00000, 1) !== 0.00) // returns false
(fmod('6.50', 1) !== 0.00) // returns true
Explanation:
fmod returns the floating point remainder (modulo) of the division of the arguments, (hence the (!== 0.00))
Modulus operator - why not use the modulus operator? E.g. ($val % 1 != 0)
From the PHP docs:
Operands of modulus are converted to integers (by stripping the decimal part) before processing.
Which will effectively destroys the op purpose, in other languages like javascript you can use the modulus operator
If all you need to know is whether a decimal point exists in a variable then this will get the job done...
function containsDecimal( $value ) {
if ( strpos( $value, "." ) !== false ) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
This isn't a very elegant solution but it works with strings and floats.
Make sure to use !== and not != in the strpos test or you will get incorrect results.
another way to solve this: preg_match('/^\d+\.\d+$/',$number); :)
The function you posted is just not PHP.
Have a look at is_float [docs].
Edit: I missed the "user entered value" part. In this case you can actually use a regular expression:
^\d+\.\d+$
I was passed a string, and wanted to know if it was a decimal or not. I ended up with this:
function isDecimal($value)
{
return ((float) $value !== floor($value));
}
I ran a bunch of test including decimals and non-decimals on both sides of zero, and it seemed to work.
is_numeric returns true for decimals and integers. So if your user lazily enters 1 instead of 1.00 it will still return true:
echo is_numeric(1); // true
echo is_numeric(1.00); // true
You may wish to convert the integer to a decimal with PHP, or let your database do it for you.
This is a more tolerate way to handle this with user input. This regex will match both "100" or "100.1" but doesn't allow for negative numbers.
/^(\d+)(\.\d+)?$/
// if numeric
if (is_numeric($field)) {
$whole = floor($field);
$fraction = $field - $whole;
// if decimal
if ($fraction > 0)
// do sth
else
// if integer
// do sth
}
else
// if non-numeric
// do sth
i use this:
function is_decimal ($price){
$value= trim($price); // trim space keys
$value= is_numeric($value); // validate numeric and numeric string, e.g., 12.00, 1e00, 123; but not -123
$value= preg_match('/^\d$/', $value); // only allow any digit e.g., 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. This will eliminate the numeric string, e.g., 1e00
$value= round($value, 2); // to a specified number of decimal places.e.g., 1.12345=> 1.12
return $value;
}
$lat = '-25.3654';
if(preg_match('/./',$lat)) {
echo "\nYes its a decimal value\n";
}
else{
echo 'No its not a decimal value';
}
A total cludge.. but hey it works !
$numpart = explode(".", $sumnum);
if ((exists($numpart[1]) && ($numpart[1] > 0 )){
// it's a decimal that is greater than zero
} else {
// its not a decimal, or the decimal is zero
}
the easy way to find either posted value is integer and float so this will help you
$postedValue = $this->input->post('value');
if(is_numeric( $postedValue ) && floor( $postedValue ))
{
echo 'success';
}
else
{
echo 'unsuccess';
}
if you give 10 or 10.5 or 10.0 the result will be success if you define any character or specail character without dot it will give unsuccess
How about (int)$value != $value?
If true it's decimal, if false it's not.
I can't comment, but I have this interesting behaviour.
(tested on v. 7.3.19 on a website for php testing online)
If you multiply 50 by 1.1 fmod gives different results than expected.
If you do by 1.2 or 1.3 it's fine, if you do another number (like 60 or 40) is also fine.
$price = 50;
$price = $price * 1.1;
if(strpos($price,".") !== false){
echo "decimal";
}else{
echo "not a decimal";
}
echo '<br />';
if(fmod($price, 1) !== 0.00){
//echo fmod($price, 1);
echo "decimal";
} else {
echo "not a decimal";
}//end if
Simplest solution is
if(is_float(2.3)){
echo 'true';
}
If you are working with form validation. Then in this case form send string.
I used following code to check either form input is a decimal number or not.
I hope this will work for you too.
function is_decimal($input = '') {
$alphabets = str_split($input);
$find = array('0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','.'); // Please note: All intiger numbers are decimal. If you want to check numbers without point "." then you can remove '.' from array.
foreach ($alphabets as $key => $alphabet) {
if (!in_array($alphabet, $find)) {
return false;
}
}
// Check if user has enter "." point more then once.
if (substr_count($input, ".") > 1) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
function is_decimal_value( $a ) {
$d=0; $i=0;
$b= str_split(trim($a.""));
foreach ( $b as $c ) {
if ( $i==0 && strpos($c,"-") ) continue;
$i++;
if ( is_numeric($c) ) continue;
if ( stripos($c,".") === 0 ) {
$d++;
if ( $d > 1 ) return FALSE;
else continue;
} else
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}
Known Issues with the above function:
1) Does not support "scientific notation" (1.23E-123), fiscal (leading $ or other) or "Trailing f" (C++ style floats) or "trailing currency" (USD, GBP etc)
2) False positive on string filenames that match a decimal: Please note that for example "10.0" as a filename cannot be distinguished from the decimal, so if you are attempting to detect a type from a string alone, and a filename matches a decimal name and has no path included, it will be impossible to discern.
Maybe try looking into this as well
!is_int()
I have a lot of pieces of code like
case 'add':
{
$succeeded = $wpdb->insert('coms',
array('name'=>$name,'story'=>$story,'imgurl'=>$imgurl)
) === 1;
break;
}
and I just realized that I need to change them all to compare against both 1 and 0. They would all be like
$numRowsAffected = $wpdb->insert('coms',
array('name'=>$name,'story'=>$story,'imgurl'=>$imgurl)
);
$succeeded = $numRowsAffected === 1 || $numRowsAffected === 0;
HOWEVER, I'm wondering whether there is a more compact, elegant and efficient way of checking a value against 1 or 0. Can I do it in one fell swoop with bitshift operators?
if ($value | 1 === 1)
I think that should do the trick.
You can use in_array:
$succeeded = in_array($numRowsAffected, array(0, 1));
You can check whether variable & 0b1111111111111110 is zero, where you adapt the lenght of the bit pattern to the maximum size of the variable.
This question already has answers here:
Test if number is odd or even
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Closed 7 years ago.
How can I get if a number is even or odd or neither (have decimal, like 1.5) with PHP? I know that there are operators like *, /, but they did not work.
Here's a try (of course it did not) (work that's just to find if it's a even number):
function even($n) {
return (($n/2)*2 == $n);
}
echo even(1); // true (should be false)
echo even(2); // true
How about
function even($n) {
if (!is_int($n)) {return 'n';}
return !($n % 2);
}
even(1); // false;
even(2); // true;
even(1.5); // 'n'
The danger here is that 'n' will evaluate as false if used as a boolean. It might be better to return some specific constants instead of true or false. The OP didn't specify what the return values should be.
It is pretty simple. modulo (%) is the operator you want, it determines if there would be a remainder if x is divided by y... for example (3 % 2 = 1) and (4 % 2 = 0).
This has been asked before too - pretty common question - you really just need to see if your number, $n % 2 is equal to 0.
php test if number is odd or even
Check if given number is integer first. And bitwise & to check if it is even or odd. Here is an example...
if (is_int($n)) {
if ($n & 1) {
echo 'Odd!';
} else {
echo 'Even!';
}
} else {
echo "Not a Integer!";
}
Hope this is helpful.
Use the modulo operator (%) to determine whether the integer is divisible by 2. You also need abs() to handle negative numbers, and is_int() to handle the fact that the modulo operator doesn't correctly handle floating point numbers. An example implementation follows:
function is_even($num) {
return is_int($num) && abs($num % 2) == 0;
}
function is_odd($num) {
return is_int($num) && abs($num % 2) == 1;
}
// this last one seems self-explanatory, but if you want it, here it is
function is_neither_even_nor_odd($num) {
return !is_even($num) && !is_odd($num);
}
// Tests: The following should all output true:
var_dump(
is_even(0),
is_even(2),
is_even(-6),
is_even(51238238),
is_odd(1),
is_odd(-1),
is_odd(57),
is_neither_even_nor_odd(1.5),
is_neither_even_nor_odd(2.5),
is_neither_even_nor_odd(-0.5),
is_neither_even_nor_odd(0.00000001)
);
Here's a demo.
is_numeric returns true if the given variable is a number
is_int returns true if the given variable is an integer
The modulor operator % can be used to determine if an integer is even or odd:
$num % 2 == 0 // returns true if even, false if odd
I need to check in PHP if user entered a decimal number (US way, with decimal point: X.XXX)
Any reliable way to do this?
You can get most of what you want from is_float, but if you really need to know whether it has a decimal in it, your function above isn't terribly far (albeit the wrong language):
function is_decimal( $val )
{
return is_numeric( $val ) && floor( $val ) != $val;
}
if you want "10.00" to return true check Night Owl's answer
If you want to know if the decimals has a value you can use this answer.
Works with all kind of types (int, float, string)
if(fmod($val, 1) !== 0.00){
// your code if its decimals has a value
} else {
// your code if the decimals are .00, or is an integer
}
Examples:
(fmod(1.00, 1) !== 0.00) // returns false
(fmod(2, 1) !== 0.00) // returns false
(fmod(3.01, 1) !== 0.00) // returns true
(fmod(4.33333, 1) !== 0.00) // returns true
(fmod(5.00000, 1) !== 0.00) // returns false
(fmod('6.50', 1) !== 0.00) // returns true
Explanation:
fmod returns the floating point remainder (modulo) of the division of the arguments, (hence the (!== 0.00))
Modulus operator - why not use the modulus operator? E.g. ($val % 1 != 0)
From the PHP docs:
Operands of modulus are converted to integers (by stripping the decimal part) before processing.
Which will effectively destroys the op purpose, in other languages like javascript you can use the modulus operator
If all you need to know is whether a decimal point exists in a variable then this will get the job done...
function containsDecimal( $value ) {
if ( strpos( $value, "." ) !== false ) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
This isn't a very elegant solution but it works with strings and floats.
Make sure to use !== and not != in the strpos test or you will get incorrect results.
another way to solve this: preg_match('/^\d+\.\d+$/',$number); :)
The function you posted is just not PHP.
Have a look at is_float [docs].
Edit: I missed the "user entered value" part. In this case you can actually use a regular expression:
^\d+\.\d+$
I was passed a string, and wanted to know if it was a decimal or not. I ended up with this:
function isDecimal($value)
{
return ((float) $value !== floor($value));
}
I ran a bunch of test including decimals and non-decimals on both sides of zero, and it seemed to work.
is_numeric returns true for decimals and integers. So if your user lazily enters 1 instead of 1.00 it will still return true:
echo is_numeric(1); // true
echo is_numeric(1.00); // true
You may wish to convert the integer to a decimal with PHP, or let your database do it for you.
This is a more tolerate way to handle this with user input. This regex will match both "100" or "100.1" but doesn't allow for negative numbers.
/^(\d+)(\.\d+)?$/
// if numeric
if (is_numeric($field)) {
$whole = floor($field);
$fraction = $field - $whole;
// if decimal
if ($fraction > 0)
// do sth
else
// if integer
// do sth
}
else
// if non-numeric
// do sth
i use this:
function is_decimal ($price){
$value= trim($price); // trim space keys
$value= is_numeric($value); // validate numeric and numeric string, e.g., 12.00, 1e00, 123; but not -123
$value= preg_match('/^\d$/', $value); // only allow any digit e.g., 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. This will eliminate the numeric string, e.g., 1e00
$value= round($value, 2); // to a specified number of decimal places.e.g., 1.12345=> 1.12
return $value;
}
$lat = '-25.3654';
if(preg_match('/./',$lat)) {
echo "\nYes its a decimal value\n";
}
else{
echo 'No its not a decimal value';
}
A total cludge.. but hey it works !
$numpart = explode(".", $sumnum);
if ((exists($numpart[1]) && ($numpart[1] > 0 )){
// it's a decimal that is greater than zero
} else {
// its not a decimal, or the decimal is zero
}
the easy way to find either posted value is integer and float so this will help you
$postedValue = $this->input->post('value');
if(is_numeric( $postedValue ) && floor( $postedValue ))
{
echo 'success';
}
else
{
echo 'unsuccess';
}
if you give 10 or 10.5 or 10.0 the result will be success if you define any character or specail character without dot it will give unsuccess
How about (int)$value != $value?
If true it's decimal, if false it's not.
I can't comment, but I have this interesting behaviour.
(tested on v. 7.3.19 on a website for php testing online)
If you multiply 50 by 1.1 fmod gives different results than expected.
If you do by 1.2 or 1.3 it's fine, if you do another number (like 60 or 40) is also fine.
$price = 50;
$price = $price * 1.1;
if(strpos($price,".") !== false){
echo "decimal";
}else{
echo "not a decimal";
}
echo '<br />';
if(fmod($price, 1) !== 0.00){
//echo fmod($price, 1);
echo "decimal";
} else {
echo "not a decimal";
}//end if
Simplest solution is
if(is_float(2.3)){
echo 'true';
}
If you are working with form validation. Then in this case form send string.
I used following code to check either form input is a decimal number or not.
I hope this will work for you too.
function is_decimal($input = '') {
$alphabets = str_split($input);
$find = array('0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','.'); // Please note: All intiger numbers are decimal. If you want to check numbers without point "." then you can remove '.' from array.
foreach ($alphabets as $key => $alphabet) {
if (!in_array($alphabet, $find)) {
return false;
}
}
// Check if user has enter "." point more then once.
if (substr_count($input, ".") > 1) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
function is_decimal_value( $a ) {
$d=0; $i=0;
$b= str_split(trim($a.""));
foreach ( $b as $c ) {
if ( $i==0 && strpos($c,"-") ) continue;
$i++;
if ( is_numeric($c) ) continue;
if ( stripos($c,".") === 0 ) {
$d++;
if ( $d > 1 ) return FALSE;
else continue;
} else
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}
Known Issues with the above function:
1) Does not support "scientific notation" (1.23E-123), fiscal (leading $ or other) or "Trailing f" (C++ style floats) or "trailing currency" (USD, GBP etc)
2) False positive on string filenames that match a decimal: Please note that for example "10.0" as a filename cannot be distinguished from the decimal, so if you are attempting to detect a type from a string alone, and a filename matches a decimal name and has no path included, it will be impossible to discern.
Maybe try looking into this as well
!is_int()
I want a pattern to create a "is_id()" function to validate user input before mysql query. The pattern most contain ONLY numbers, my problem is avoid the float numbers:
function is_id($id) {
$pattern = "/^[0-9]+/";
if(preg_match($pattern,$id)) {
echo "ok";
} else {
echo "error";
}
}
is_id(0) // error
is_id(-5) // error
is_id(-5.5) // error
is_id(1.5) // ok <-- THIS IS THE PROBLEM
is_id(10) // ok
is_id("5") // ok
is_id("string") // error
$ denotes the end of a line/string to match.
/^[0-9]+$/
You're missing the trailing $ in your pattern. In is_id(1.5) your pattern is matching the 1 and stopping. If you add a trailing $ (as in ^[0-9]+$) then the pattern will need to match the entire input to succeed.
Why use a regex? Why not check types (this isn't as tiny as the regex, but it may be more semantically appropriate)
function is_id($n) {
return is_numeric($n) && floor($n) == $n && $n > 0;
}
is_numeric() verifies that it's either a float, an int, or a number than can be converted.
floor($n) == $n checks to see if it's indeed an integer.
$n > 0 checks to see if it's greater than 0.
Done...
You don't need regex for this, you can use a simple check like so:
function is_id($id)
{
return ((is_numeric($id) || is_int($id)) && !is_float($id)) && $id > -1
}
The output is as follows:
var_dump(is_id(0)); // false - are we indexing from 0 or 1 ?
var_dump(is_id(-5)); // false
var_dump(is_id(-5.5)); // false
var_dump(is_id(1.5)); // false
var_dump(is_id(10)); // true
var_dump(is_id("5")); // true
var_dump(is_id("string")); // false
I favour ircmaxell's answer.