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is_float

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

is_float — Verifica se una variabile è di tipo float (decimale a virgola mobile)

Descrizione

bool is_float ( mixed $var )

Verifica se una variabile è di tipo float (decimale a virgola mobile).

Nota: Per verificare se una variabile è un numero oppure una stringa numerica (come le variabili dei form, che sono sempre stringhe) occorre usare la funzione is_numeric().

Elenco dei parametri

var

La variabile da valutare.

Valori restituiti

Questa funzione restituisce TRUE se var è di tipo float, FALSE in caso contrario.



is_int> <is_double
Last updated: Fri, 18 Jul 2008
 
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is_float
ckelley at the ca - cycleworks dot com
14-Jul-2008 03:39
Personally, I use an implicit cast:

if( is_float($value+1) ){
    $value=sprintf("%.2f",$value);
}

Which turns 22.0000000 query result into 22.00 for display to users.
kshegunov at gmail dot com
31-Mar-2008 02:32
As celelibi at gmail dot com stated, is_float checks ONLY the type of the variable not the data it holds!

If you want to check if string represent a floating point value use the following regular expression and not is_float(),
or poorly written custom functions.

/^[+-]?(([0-9]+)|([0-9]*\.[0-9]+|[0-9]+\.[0-9]*)|
(([0-9]+|([0-9]*\.[0-9]+|[0-9]+\.[0-9]*))[eE][+-]?[0-9]+))$/
celelibi at gmail dot com
03-Mar-2008 08:31
Unlike others comment may let you think, this function tests *only* the type of the variable. It does not perform any other test.
If you want to check if a string represents a valid float value, please use is_numeric instead.
WHITE new media architects - Jeroen
10-Jan-2008 03:24
The above printed "is_true_float" function is not correct.
It gives wrong answers on the following tests:
is_true_float("-4,123"); # returns false
is_true_float("0,123");  # returns false

So I changed the function to correctly handle qouted negative floats and quoted floats near zero:

<?php

function is_true_float($mVal)
{
  return (
is_float($mVal)
           || ( (float)
$mVal != round($mVal)
                ||
strlen($mVal) != strlen( (int) $mVal) )
              &&
$mVal != 0 );
}

?>
Kenaniah Cerny
06-Nov-2007 11:21
For those of you who have discovered that is_float() does not behave exactly the way you would expect it to when passing a string, here is a function that extends is_float properly report floating numbers given any sort of mixed variable.

<?php
function is_true_float($val){
    if(
is_float($val) || ( (float) $val > (int) $val || strlen($val) != strlen( (int) $val) ) && (int) $val != ) return true;
    else return
false;
}
?>

<?php
//Tests
'4.0'       returns true
'2.1'       returns true
0           returns false
"0"         returns false
3.          returns true
13          returns false
"12"        returns false
3.53        returns true
?>

Enjoy
phper
25-Jan-2006 12:08
A better way to check for a certain number of decimal places is to use :

$num_dec_places = 2;
number_format($value,$num_dec_places);
kirti dot contact at gmail dot com
18-Oct-2005 11:18
To check a float only should contain certain number of decimal places, I have used this simple function below

<?
function is_deccount($number,$decimal=2){
    $m_factor=pow(10,$decimal);
    if((int)($number*$m_factor)==$number*$m_factor)
        return true;
    else
        return false;
 }   
?>

is_int> <is_double
Last updated: Fri, 18 Jul 2008
 
 
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