Re: Beware of round() function

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Thanks for the info, Jeremy. Regardless of the technical details, my code 
still broke. I am little discouraged that an operation that should be so 
simple has these sorts of gotchas.

BTW, I ended up casting to int as my solution.

Kirk

Jeremy Privett <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/24/2008 02:04:48 PM:

> Jeremy Privett wrote:
> > Kirk.Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Beware: round() apparently has changed its behavior from PHP 4.
> > 
> > This is actually a change in the behavior of the float type, not the 
> > round function. Replace your round() with a cast to float and you'll 
> > see the exact same result.
> >
> 
> Also, as a side-note, the only way I've found to get these numbers to 
> print properly is through either printf or sprintf. Also, you could cast 

> back to an integer, if you explicitly don't need floats.

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