[RESOLVED] strip leading + - signs

esiason14

Pleeeeease, can someone tell me how to strip off the leading positive and negative signs from an array?

Values look like this:

-0.85, +1.56, -76.666, etc

bradgrafelman

$array = array('-0.85', '+1.56', '-76.666');
$stripped_array = array();

foreach($array as $num)
     $stripped_array[] = str_replace( array('+', '-'), '', $num);

Like that?

esiason14

Thanks for the reply. I guess I should be more specific.

This is what I have:

foreach ($symb as $i => $value) {

$fp = fopen ("http://www.adomain.com","r");

$datast = fgetcsv ($fp, 1000, ",");

 echo "<b>$value</b><?php echo $datast[1] ?>";

if( $datast[4] > 0 )
{ echo " <img src=\"images/up.gif\"> $datast[4]</img>"; }
elseif( $datast[4] < 0 ) 
    { echo " <img src=\"images/down.gif\"> $datast[4]</img>"; } 
else 
    { echo " $datast[4]"; } 
?>

$datast[4] is what I want to strip the signs from.

bradgrafelman

Ok.. so look at my example code, and look how I stripped the signs. You should be able to adapt it to your code fairly easily.

esiason14

Thanks for the help. I got it to work, but one problem.

$datast[1] is always a positive number and doesnt have a pos/neg sign in front of it.

$datast[4] does.

It did strip the signs of datast[4], but now I cant get datast[1] to show.

bradgrafelman

Okay... show me your new code that is having problems now.

esiason14

I'm probably just a big dummy, but here it is.

$datast = fgetcsv ($fp, 1000, ",");

foreach($datast as $num) 
  $stripped_datast[] = str_replace(array('+', '-'), '', $num); 

echo "<b>$stock_value</b><?php echo $datast[1] ?>";

if( $stripped_datast[4] > 0 )
{ echo " <img src=\"images/up.gif\"> $stripped_datast[4]</img>"; }
elseif( $stripped_datast[4] < 0 )
    { echo " <img src=\"images/down.gif\"> $stripped_datast[4]</img>"; }
else
    { echo " $stripped_datast[4]"; }

bradgrafelman

Well... look at your code now. It's even easier to see now with the syntax highlighting. You tried to open a <?PHP tag inside of an echo()!

Furthermore, arrays (more specifically, items in arrays referenced by indeces) should not simply appear inside a double-quoted string. If they do, they should be wrapped in braces ( {} ). Instead, I usually escape out of the string and concatenate the array in the middle, like so:

echo 'Your name is: ' . $row[0] . '! Hello there.';

esiason14

Doh! Thanks for your help and the pointers. Its much appreciated!

bradgrafelman

Glad I could help!