Playing with more data types

[Cam]

Hey,

I'm trying to determine if the characters in a string really should be a float I have this code so far

if ( strstr($val, '.') && is_numeric(trim($val, '.')) ) {
    settype($val, 'float');
} 

but it doesn't work. For testing, $val is '1.63'. It being changed to an integer with this code

if ( is_numeric($val) ) {
    settype($val, INT);
} 

and then I assume since that prunes out the decimal, it's not being picked up by the float checker.

Any idea to fix this? I'm going to try putting the float checking code first and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks

[siteguru]

I'm going to try putting the float checking code first and see if that makes a difference.

That's what I would have suggested. An alternative would be to count the number of dots in the value ...

if ( is_numeric ($val) ) {
    if ( substr_count ($val, '.') == 1 ) {
        settype ($val, 'float');
    } else {
        settype ($val, 'integer');
    }
} 

[Cam]

IT WORKS!!!!!

Thanks you so much