[SOLVED] Function to remove E+

[PJ droopy pants]

For instanse if someone was to put in a number into one of my forms like 1.0497330552348E+16.

I am using $amount = (floor($_POST['amount'])); but it does not round that type of number down.

Please any help would be great.

[PJ droopy pants]

I got it.

 

$amount = preg_replace("/[[:^digit:]]/", '', $amount);

[Mark Baker]

Solved by simply removing the 'E' ? ? ? ?

 

Learn some basic mathematics.

 

Try running the following, and tell me which method actually displays the correct value.

$iString = '1.0497330552348E+16';

$iFloat1 = (float) $iString;

$iFloat2 = (float) preg_replace("/[[:^digit:]]/", '', $iString);

echo 'First Method gives '.number_format($iFloat1).'<br />';

echo 'Second Method gives '.number_format($iFloat2).'<br />';

[Daniel0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E_notation

[marcus]

Or you could use http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.bc.php for large integers.