multiplication math not working ?

[One]

hi group -

I had this in a function - so I've just moved this out of the function
for readabilty.

Can someone please tell me WHY does this not return the result of :
n1 times n2

As I said - I took it out of the function just for readability :
In my php file :

$number_percent ="25";
echo "history['order_total'] is ".$history['order_total']."<br />";
echo "number_per cent is ".$number_perce nt."<br />";
$total=(($histo ry['order_total'])*$number_perce nt);
echo "total is ".$total."< br />";

And here is the output in the browser :
history['order_total'] is $241.47
number_percent is 25
total is 0

WHY ? Any advice or pointers would be much appreciated!

[Rik]

One <da**********@g mail.comwrote:

Input :
echo "history['order_total'] is ".$history['order_total']."<br />";
$removeit=str_r eplace('$' ,'', $history['order_total']);
echo $removeit;
$floatandremove = floatval($remov eit);
echo "<br />floatandremo ve is ".$floatandremo ve;
exit;

Output :
history['order_total'] is $241.47
241.47
floatandremove is 0

There must be something else going on with your currency string.
Please use this on that string, and report it's results back to us:

echo preg_replace('/(.)/se','"[".ord("$1") ."]"',$history['order_total']);
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Rik Wasmus

[One]

On Feb 8, 2:01 pm, Rik <luiheidsgoe... @hotmail.comwro te:

One <david.hun...@g mail.comwrote:

Input :
echo "history['order_total'] is ".$history['order_total']."<br />";
$removeit=str_r eplace('$' ,'', $history['order_total']);
echo $removeit;
$floatandremove = floatval($remov eit);
echo "<br />floatandremo ve is ".$floatandremo ve;
exit;

Output :
history['order_total'] is $241.47
241.47
floatandremove is 0

There must be something else going on with your currency string.
Please use this on that string, and report it's results back to us:

echo preg_replace('/(.)/se','"[".ord("$1") ."]"',$history['order_total']);
--
Rik Wasmus

Thanks again Rik - here you go :

Input :
echo "history['order_total'] is ".$history['order_total']."<br />";
echo preg_replace('/(.)/se','"[".ord("$1") ."]"',
$history['order_total']);
exit;

Output :
history['order_total'] is $241.47
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[Toby A Inkster]

One wrote:

history['order_total'] is $241.47
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$history['order_total'] contains '<b>$241.47</b>'. This is not a number.

$history['order_total'] = (float)preg_rep lace('/[^0-9\.]/', '',
strip_tags($his tory['order_total']));

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[One]

On Feb 9, 5:51 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@t obyinkster.co.u k>
wrote:

One wrote:

history['order_total'] is $241.47
[60][98][62][36][50][52][49][46][52][55][60][47][98][62]

$history['order_total'] contains '<b>$241.47</b>'. This is not a number.

$history['order_total'] = (float)preg_rep lace('/[^0-9\.]/', '',
strip_tags($his tory['order_total']));

Mr. Toby!
You da man - thanks very much!

Thank you also to Rik and Jerry for taking the time to resolve this
issue.