On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Ron Piggott <ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > How can I get the 25 by itself? > - I want to drop the “2.” and remove all the zero’s > > Would it be best to turn this into a STRING? > I would recommend turning it into a string, splitting the string at the decimal, then scanning the second string for the first non-zero and storing the subsequent characters. Working with floats at that precision level would likely lead to tragic results: "10.0 times .1 is hardly ever 1.0" http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~xmeng/Course/CS2330/Handout/StyleKP.html Adam -- Nephtali: A simple, flexible, fast, and security-focused PHP framework http://nephtaliproject.com