Oh, yes, Gerry has provided very useful links. You could definetly look into using something like: printf( "%.2f", $x ); -- Anas Mughal On 1/10/06, Gerry Danen <gdanen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > sprintf creates a string ready for you to manipulate. So does > number_format. Pick whatever is best for your purpose. > > See http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php and > http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php for more info. > > Gerry > > > On 1/10/06, Mark Steudel <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can I do this all with sprintf or do I then need to convert it to a > string > > and chop off what I don't want? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gerry Danen [mailto:gdanen@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 3:35 PM > > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Floating numbers truncating to two digits without > > rounding > > > > Mark, > > > > Why not use sprintf() with an arbitrary large number of decimals and > then > > discard all but the 2 you want. I.e., format with 10 decimals and then > drop > > the last 8. > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Anas Mughal
