Converting scientific notation

[Skeleton Man]

Hi,

I have a script that generates numbers beyond the range of it, and so it's
throwing them out as scientfic notation (e.g. 5E+10 instead of
50,000,000,000) . The only way I've found of avoiding this is by using bc*()
functions in place of normal operators (e.g. bcmul() instead of '*').
Surely there's a way to simply convert a number in scientific notation into
a normal integer ?

Regards,
Chris

[Tony Marston]

Re: Converting scientific notation

This is what I use to convert float|real|doub le values into display format:

$float = sprintf('%f', $fieldvalue);
$integer = sprintf('%d', $fieldvalue);
if ($float == $integer) {
// this is a whole number, so remove all decimals
$output = $integer;
} else {
// remove trailing zeroes from the decimal portion
$output = rtrim($float,'0 ');
} // if

HTH.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

"Skeleton Man" <invalid@guestw ho.com> wrote in message
news:ZZiVc.276$ D7.209@news-server.bigpond. net.au...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have a script that generates numbers beyond the range of it, and so it's
> throwing them out as scientfic notation (e.g. 5E+10 instead of
> 50,000,000,000) . The only way I've found of avoiding this is by using
> bc*()
> functions in place of normal operators (e.g. bcmul() instead of '*').
> Surely there's a way to simply convert a number in scientific notation
> into
> a normal integer ?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>[/color]

[Skeleton Man]

Re: Converting scientific notation

>This is what I use to convert float|real|doub le values into display format:
[color=blue]
>$float = sprintf('%f', $fieldvalue);
>$integer = sprintf('%d', $fieldvalue);
>if ($float == $integer) {
> // this is a whole number, so remove all decimals
> $output = $integer;
>} else {
> // remove trailing zeroes from the decimal portion
> $output = rtrim($float,'0 ');
>} // if[/color]

That works brilliantly, thankyou !

Regards,
Chris