If you want to use the modulus, why not just use modulus (%) ?
But, instead of doing all that math, why not just use the
number_format() function?
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, DanO wrote:
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:57:55 -0800
> From: DanO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Php-General@Lists. Php. Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [PHP] decimal point movement...
>
>
> why go thru the costly overhead of a regex when you can use math?
>
>
> ex:
>
> <?
> $number = '600';
> $new = $number/100;
> $rem = $new-$new%100;
> if ($rem == 0) {
> $new .= ".00";
> }
>
> print $number;
> print "\n";
> print $new;
> ?>
>
> you divide the number by 100 to push the decimal back, and, if there is no
> remainder (by modulus division), you append .00 to the variable.
>
> DanO
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:05 PM
> To: 'Christopher Allen'; php
> Subject: RE: [PHP] decimal point movement...
>
>
> Christopher,
>
> try a regular expression somthing like this
>
> <?
> $temp = "007170";
> ereg ("([0-9]{2})([0-9]*)", $temp, $test);
> $changed_to_deicmal_form = $test[1].".".$test[2];
> echo "$changed_to_deicmal_form";
> ?>
>
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:35 AM
> To: php
> Subject: [PHP] decimal point movement...
>
>
>
> Greetings!
>
> I am looking for an efficeient way to assign a decimal to a number and store
> the new number.
> I wanto add a decimal point after the first 2 leading digitis..
> while ( query runs)
> {
>
> $temp=007170;
> $changed_to_deicmal_form; // would store .7170
> }
>
> Furthermore I was using printf to round up numbers...has anyone found a
> different or better way?
>
>
>
>
>
> Christopher C. M. Allen
>
>
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