get this from my database:
252.587254564
Well i wanna remove the .587254564 and keep the 252, how can i do that?
What function should i use and can you show me an example?
Greetings
You can do it in PHP:
round($val, 0);
or in your MYSQL statement:
select round(foo_value, 0) value from foo
You can do a simply cast to int.
$var = 252.587254564;
$var = (int)$var; // 252
As Tricker mentioned you can round the value down or you can just cast it to int like so:
$variable = 252.587254564; // this is of type double
$variable = (int)$variable; // this will cast the type from double to int causing it to strip the floating point.
In PHP you would use:
$value = floor($value);
floor: Returns the next lowest integer value by rounding the value down if necessary.
If you wanted to round up it would be:
$value = ceil($value);
ceil: Returns the next highest integer value by rounding the value up if necessary.
You can just cast it to an int:
$new = (int)$old;
Convert the float number to string, and use intval to convert it to integer will give you 1990
intval(("19.90"*100).'')
Before using above answer what is your exact requirement please see bellow example output.
$val = 252.587254564;
echo (int)$val; //252
echo round($val, 0); //253
echo ceil($val); //253
$val = 1234567890123456789.512345;
echo (int)$val; //1234567890123456768
echo round($val, 0);//1.2345678901235E+18
echo ceil($val); //1.2345678901235E+18
$val = 123456789012345678912.512345;
echo (int)$val; //-5670419503621177344
echo round($val, 0);//1.2345678901235E+20
echo ceil($val); //1.2345678901235E+20
you can use echo (int) 252.587254564;
positive number:
round(252.587254564) // 253
floor(252.587254564) // 252
ceil(252.587254564) //252
(int)252.587254564 // 252
intval(252.587254564) // 252
~~252.587254564 // 252
negative number:
round(-252.587254564) // -253
floor(-252.587254564) // -253
ceil(-252.587254564) // -252
(int)-252.587254564 // -252
intval(-252.587254564) // -252
~~-252.587254564 // -252
if you want just remove decimals without round you can use one of above codes except round and floor(for negative number).
But I recommended the last one, it's simpler and faster using prefix ~~
And there is also a not quite advisable method:
strtok($value, ".");
This cuts of the first part until it encounters a dot. The result will be a string, not a PHP integer. While it doesn't affect using the result much, it's not the best option.
I see many answers, but the question is:
"Well i wanna remove the .587254564 and keep the 252, how can i do
that?"
Since the questioner is asking for php, the function in php will be the one for the job.
$newValue = floor($value);
In MySQL you can use:
select floor(field)
or in PHP you can use:
floor($value);
Related
Hi i need to save a 010 number in $number and if i do like this php will remove the starting 0
$number = 010
And echo of this will return 10 how can i make it not to remove the initial 0
BR
Martin
Use it as a String:
$number = '010';
Use str_pad() function.
echo str_pad('10',3,'0',STR_PAD_LEFT)
http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php
Do remember that numbers starting with 0 can also be treated as octal number notation by the PHP compiler, hence if you want to work with decimal numbers, simply use:
$num = '010';
This way the number is saved, can be stored in the database and manipulated like any other number. (Thx to the fact that PHP is very loosely typed language.)
Another method to use would be:
Save number as $num = 10;
Later while printing the value you can use sprintf, like:
sprintf("%03d", $i);
This will print your number in 3 digit format, hence 0 will be added automatically.
Another method:
<?php
$num = 10;
$zerofill = 3;
echo str_pad($num, $zerofill, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
/* Returns the wanted result of '010' */
?>
You can have a look at the various options available to you and make a decision. Each of the method given above will give you a correct output.
If I have, say, 8.1 saved as a string/plaintext, how can I change that into the integer (that I can do addition with) 81? (I've got to remove the period and change it into an integer. I can't seem to figure it out even though I know it should be simple. Everything I try simply outputs 1.)
You can also try this
$str = '8.1';
$int = filter_var($str, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
echo $int; // 81
echo $int+1; // 82
DEMO.
If you're dealing with whole numbers (as you said), you could use the intval function that is built into PHP.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php
So basically, once you have your string parsed and setup as a whole number you can do something like:
intval("81");
And get back the integer 81.
Example:
$strNum = "81";
$intNum = intval($strNum);
echo $intNum;
// "81"
echo getType($intNum);
// "integer"
Since php does auto-casting, this should work:
<?php
$str="8432.145522";
$val = str_replace('.','', $str);
print $str." : ".$val;
?>
Output:
8432.145522 : 8432145522
Not sure if this will work. But if you always have something.something,(like 1.1 or 4.2), you can multiply by 10 and do intval('string here'). But if you have something.somethingsomething or with more somethings(like 1.42 and 5.234267, etc.), I don't know what to say. Maybe a function to keep multiplying by ten until it's an integer with is_int()?
Sources:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-int.php
Convert a string to a double - is this possible?
What would be an elegant way of doing this?
I have this -> "MC0001" This is the input. It always begins with "MC"
The output I'd be aiming with this input is "MC0002".
So I've created a function that's supposed to return "1" after removing "MC000". I'm going to convert this into an integer later on so I could generate "MC0002" which could go up to "MC9999". To do that, I figured I'd need to loop through the string and count the zeros and so on but I think I'd be making a mess that way.
Anybody has a better idea?
This should do the trick:
<?php
$string = 'MC0001';
// extract the part succeeding 'MC':
$number_part = substr($string, 2);
// count the digits for later:
$number_digits = strlen($number_part);
// turn it into a number:
$number = (int) $number_part;
// make the next sequence:
$next = 'MC' . str_pad($number + 1, $number_digits, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
using filter_var might be the best solution.
echo filter_var("MC0001", FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT)."\n";
echo filter_var("MC9999", FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
will give you
0001
9999
These can be cast to int or just used as they are, as PHP will auto-convert anyway if you use them as numbers.
just use ltrim to remove any leading chars: http://php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php
$str = ltrim($str, 'MC0');
$num = intval($str);
<php
// original number to integer
sscanf( $your_string, 'MC%d', $your_number );
// pad increment to string later on
sprintf( 'MC%04u', $your_number + 1 );
Not sure if there is a better way of parsing a string as an integer when there are leading zero's.
I'd suggest doing the following:
1. Loop through the string ( beginning at location 2 since you don't need the MC part )
2. If you find a number thats bigger than 0, stop, get the substring using your current location and the length of the string minus your current location. Cast to integer, return value.
You can remove the "MC" par by doing a substring operating on the string.
$a = "MC0001";
$a = substr($a, 2); //Lengths of "MC"
$number = intval($a); //1
return intval(str_replace($input, 'MC', ''), 10);
How do I output a value as a number in php? I suspect I have a php value but it is outputting as text and not as a number.
Thanks
Here is the code - Updated for David from question below
<?php
if (preg_match('/\-(\d+)\.asp$/', $pagename1, $a))
{
$pageNumber = $a[1];}
else
{ // failed to match number from URL}
}
?>
If I call it in: This code it does not seem to work.
$maxRows_rs_datareviews = 10;
$pageNum_rs_datareviews = $pagename1; <<<<<------ This is where I want to use it.
if (isset($_GET['pageNum_rs_datareviews'])) {
$pageNum_rs_datareviews = $_GET['pageNum_rs_datareviews'];
}
If I make page name a static number like 3 the code works, if I use $pagename1 it does not, this gives me the idea $pagename1 is not seen as a number?
My stupidity!!!! - I used $pagename1 instead of pageNumber
What kind of number? An integer, decimal, float, something else?
Probably the easiest method is to use printf(), eg
printf('The number %d is an integer', $number);
printf('The number %0.2f has two decimal places', $number);
This might be blindingly obvious but it looks like you want to use
$pageNum_rs_datareviews = $pageNumber;
and not
$pageNum_rs_datareviews = $pagename1;
echo (int)$number; // integer 123
echo (float)$number; // float 123.45
would be the easiest
I prefer to use number_format:
echo number_format(56.30124355436,2).'%'; // 56.30%
echo number_format(56.30124355436,0).'%'; // 56%
$num = 5;
echo $num;
Any output is text, since it's output. It doesn't matter what the type of what you're outputting is, since the human eye will see it as text. It's how you actually treat is in the code is what matters.
Converting (casting) a string to a number is different. You can do stuff like:
$num = (int) $string;
$num = intval($string);
Googling php string to number should give you a beautiful array of choices.
Edit: To scrape a number from something, you can use preg_match('/\d+/', $string, $number). $number will now contain all numbers in $string.
example: 1.123 =>1 1.999 => 1
thanks.
$y = 1.235251;
$x = (int)$y;
echo $x; //will echo "1"
Edit:
Using the explicit cast to (int) is the most efficient way to to this AFAIK. Also casting to (int) will cut off the digits after the "." if the number is negative instead of rounding to the next lower negative number:
echo (int)(-3.75); //echoes "-3";
echo floor(-3.75); //echoes "-4";
floor()
will round a number down to the nearest integer.
EDIT: As pointed out by Mark below, this will only work for positive values, which is an important assumption. For negative values, you'd want to use ceil() -- but checking the sign of the input value would be cumbersome and you'd probably want to employ Mark's or TechnoP's (int) cast idea instead. Hope that helps.
You could use a bitwise operator.
Without:
echo 49 / 3;
>> 16.333333333333
With "| 0" bitwise:
echo 49 / 3 | 0;
>> 16
$y = 1.234;
list($y) = explode(".", "$y");
If your input can only be positive floats then as already mentioned floor works.
floor(1.2)
However if your integer could also be negative then floor may not give you what you want: it always rounds down even for negative numbers. Instead you can cast to int as another post mentioned. This will give you the correct result for both negative and positive numbers.
(int)-1.2
To remove all number after point use some php function
echo round(51.5); // Round the number, return 51.
echo floor(51.5); // Round down number, return 51.
echo ceil(51.3); // Round up number, return 52.