PHP show only significant (non-zero) decimals

In PHP (using built-in functions) I'd like to convert/fo开发者_StackOverflow社区rmat a number with decimal, so that only the non-zero decimals show. However, another requirement of mine is that if it's a number without a decimal value, I'd still like to show that zero. Examples:

9.000 -> 9.0
9.100 -> 9.1
9.120 -> 9.12
9.123 -> 9.123

rtrim($value, "0") almost works. The problem with rtrim is that it leaves 9.000 as 9.. sprintf() seemed like a candidate, but I couldn't get it to have a variable amount of decimals. number_format() serves a different purpose, and those were all I could come up with...

Again, I'd like to point out that I am not looking for your homemade solutions to this, I'm looking for a way to accomplish this using internal PHP functionality. I can write a function that will accomplish this easily myself, so hold answers like that.

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I don't think theres a way to do that. A regex is probably your best solution:

$value = preg_replace('/(\.[0-9]+?)0*$/', '$1', $value);

Demo:

php> $a = array('0.000', '0.0001', '0.0101', '9.000', '9.100', '9.120', '9.123');
php> foreach($a as $b) { echo $b . ' => ' . preg_replace('/(\.[0-9]+?)0*$/', '$1', $b)."\n"; }
0.000 => 0.0
0.0001 => 0.0001
0.0101 => 0.0101
9.000 => 9.0
9.100 => 9.1
9.120 => 9.12
9.123 => 9.123

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If you want a built-in solution and you're using a PHP version later than 4.2 you could try floatval():

echo floatval(9.200);

prints

9.2

but

echo floatval(9.123);

prints

9.123

Hope this helps.

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try something like this

$number = 2.00;
echo floor_dec($number,$deg);

    function floor_dec($number, $deg = null)
    {
        if ($deg == null)
            return $number * 1000 / 1000;
        else
            return $number * pow(10, $deg) / pow(10, $deg);
    }

will display "2"

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Shouldn't it be?:

$value = preg_replace('~0*$~', '', $value);

The PHP preg_replace syntax is

mixed preg_replace ( mixed $pattern , mixed $replacement , mixed $subject [, int $limit = -1 [, int &$count ]] )

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A trailing zero is significant:

• A value of 9.0 implies, that the real value is more than 8.9 and less than 9.1
• A value of 9.00000 implies, that the real value is more than 8.99999 and less than 9.00001

Therefore, your requirement is quite unusual. That's the reason why no function exists to do what you want.

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<?php
    $numbers = array(
        "9.000",
        "9.100",
        "9.120",
        "9.123"
    );
    foreach($numbers as $number) {
        echo sprintf(
            "%s -> %s\n",
            $number,
            (float) $number == (int) $number ? number_format($number, 1) : (float) $number
        );
    }
?>

Output:

9.000 -> 9.0
9.100 -> 9.1
9.120 -> 9.12
9.123 -> 9.123

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Out of the box that isn't possible because you have two different ways of treating the fragment of your floats. You'll first have to determine how many non-zero numbers there are in your fragment and then act accordingly with sprintf.

<?php

$numbers = array(
    '9.000',
    '9.100',
    '9.120',
    '9.123',
);

foreach ($numbers as $number) {

    $decimals = strlen(str_replace('0','', array_pop(explode('.', $number))));
    $decimals = $decimals ?: 1;
    echo $number . " => " . sprintf("%.{$decimals}f", $number);

    echo "<br/>";

}

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How about

preg_replace(/\\.$/,'.0',rtrim($value,'0'))

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Assuming the number is encoded as or cast to a string, here's a general purpose approach:

$value = is_numeric($value) ? strval($value + 0) : $value;

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My solution is to let php handle it as a number (is *1) and then treat it as a string (my example I was using percentages stored as a decimal with 2 decimal places):

printf('%s%% off', $value*1);

This outputs:

0.00  => 0% off
0.01  => 0.01% off
20.00 => 20% off
20.50 => 20.5% off

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rtrim($value, "0") almost works. The problem with rtrim is that it leaves 9.000 as 9.

So just rtrim($value, "0.") and you're done.