I may be over-simplifying or not completely understanding fixed point decimals,
but would number_format work?
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Take care,
Floyd
On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Raymond Irving wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to represent numeric values as fixed point decimals in PHP? If
> not, why was this datatype not added?
>
> I think is very important to have fixed point decimals when working with
> money values. This would make it much easy than having to use the BCMath
> functions.
>
> If PHP had support for operator overloading then we could have easily
> implemented this datatype as a class:
>
> $a = new FixPoint(34.56, 2);
> $b = new FixPoint(34.55, 2);
>
> $c = $a-$b;
> echo ($c);
>
> $c+= 3;
> echo $c;
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