[SOLVED] Selecting part of a variable

[mrbill]

Been trying to select part of a number (price) contained in a variable.

 

Here is a sample of the code I have been attempting to get to work for this

$amount = "$52.99";
$n = sscanf($amount, "%s %s", $dollars, $cents);
echo "<h2>" . $dollars . "</h2> <em>" .$cents. "</em>";

 

The above outputs everything to the $dollars and nothing to $cents. The dollar amount won't always be 2 digits so I would like to be able to just seperate from the right to the decimal, that is *.99* only and the dollar amount from the decimal to the dollar sign, *$52*.

 

All I am trying to do is take the $amount which is in this example $52.99 and separate the dollar from the cents so I can apply a style.

 

It should look something like this: $52^.99

[teng84]

echo (int) $number;

 

try that one

[teng84]

or you can try the pregmatch

 

 

ASTIG!!

[sasa]

try

<?php
$amount = "$52.99";
$n = preg_match('/([\$0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/',$amount,$a);
echo "<h2>" . $a[1] . " <sup>" .$a[2]. "</sup></h2>";
?>

[mrbill]

Bingo! We have a winner.

 

I am going to use the example code from SASA. Thank you Teng84 also for your response.