On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:27 am, Doug Thompson wrote: > The "%" is called the Modulus operator. It is very briefly explained in > the PHP manual in table 11-2. > > In your example, $mod = $a % $b ==> $mod = 0.8 The modulus is the remainder after division hence 5 into 24 goes 3 times with a remainder of 4, hence $mod=25%4 gives $mod=4 Cheers -- Phil Driscoll -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
