Jeffry Killen wrote:
> Sorry, there is a misunderstanding on my part here:
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Jeffry Killen wrote:
>
>> Here is some more that you may find useful:
>>
>> In your hypothetical example:
>> $num = '123_456_789',
>> $num is a string.
>> and I presume you mean that this is hard coded into your source file
>> code and you want to be able to read the source code with greater ease.
>> So you can hard code it this way and if you want to use the value as an
>> actual number in some mathmatical processing:
>>
> settype does not return anything accept true or false.
One could use intval()/floatval() or an (int)/(float) cast instead.
>> settype(str_replace('_', '', '123_456_789'), 'int');
>>
>> or--
>> $num = '123_456_789';
>> function use($num)
>> {
>> settype(str_replace('_', '', $num), 'int')
>> }
>> $num = use($num);
>>
>> Or settype( string, 'float') if there is a decimal fraction involved.
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