getting only 2 decimal values

graziano

Hello ,

I have a numberic variable . It should return only 2 decimal values .

for example if the variable is

12.194720484222222

I need to convert it to

12.19
(reducing decimal values to 2)

or if I have
120003.121212121247284784734

I need to convert it to
120003.12
(reducing decimal values to 2)

Is there any way to do that ? I searched for a php function but I was not able to find it .

Thanks

bobthedog

[man]number_format/man would be your best bet

graziano

thanks a lot

Rohan_Hill

Or you could use round ($number, 2)

bobthedog

True... you could indeed.

TBH, depends what you want to do with the number afterwards. If you are continuing to do math with it, then round is a better function. If you want to output it for display, then number_format is probably the better function, since it will insert thousand seperators (,) etc, which you can of course customise and looks nice for the user.

I assumed he would be dumping the contents to a user, hence the number_format suggestion.

graziano

Originally posted by bobthedog
True... you could indeed.

TBH, depends what you want to do with the number afterwards. If you are continuing to do math with it, then round is a better function. If you want to output it for display, then number_format is probably the better function, since it will insert thousand seperators (,) etc, which you can of course customise and looks nice for the user.

I assumed he would be dumping the contents to a user, hence the number_format suggestion.

Yes , first solution is ok for me because I need only to echo on browser the values (without showing all the decimails) , however your consideration is good .