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Removing insignificant decimal characters? [message #169479] Tue, 14 September 2010 23:54 Go to next message
MikeB is currently offline  MikeB
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I have the following little routing to reduce large numbers into more
comprehensible human-readable values.

What I would like is for some smarts, to not append the decimal or
trailing zeroes in the decimal positions if those are not significant.

eg. I'd like the function to print

300 bytes iso 300.00 bytes

and

4 Kb iso 4.00 Kb.

Any hints as to how I can do this?

Oh, and any comments on coding is appreciated, I'm learning this stuff
and criticism helps. :)

thanks
MikeB

<?php
$mfs = 4096;

echo "<br> Say 4 Kb: " . return_sized($mfs);
echo "<br/>Say 300 bytes: " . return_sized(300);
echo "<br/> Say 5,000 bytes: " . return_sized(5000);
echo "<br/> Say 5,000,000 bytes: " . return_sized(5000000);
echo "<br/> Say 5,000,000,000 bytes: " . return_sized(5000000000);
echo "<br/> Say 5,000,000,000,000 bytes: " . return_sized(5000000000000);

function return_sized($val) {
/*
* return a large number in more human-readable format
*/
$suffix = array('bytes', ' Kb', ' Mb', ' Gb');
for ($i = 0; $i < 3; ++$i) {
if ($val > 1024) {
$val /= 1024;
} else
break;
};
$val = sprintf("%.2f",$val);
// echo "<br/>Function suffix value is $i<br/>";
$val .= $suffix[$i];
// echo '<br/>$val has value: ' . $val ."<br/>" ;
return $val;
}

?>
Re: Removing insignificant decimal characters? [message #169485 is a reply to message #169479] Wed, 15 September 2010 01:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Greg Russell is currently offline  Greg Russell
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In news:4c900b5f$1(at)news(dot)x-privat(dot)org,
MikeB <mpbrede(at)gmail(dot)com> typed:

> eg. I'd like the function to print
>
> 300 bytes iso 300.00 bytes
>
> and
>
> 4 Kb iso 4.00 Kb.
>
> Any hints as to how I can do this?

Use printf(). See
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.printf.php
Re: Removing insignificant decimal characters? [message #169487 is a reply to message #169485] Wed, 15 September 2010 01:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
MikeB is currently offline  MikeB
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Greg Russell wrote:
> In news:4c900b5f$1(at)news(dot)x-privat(dot)org,
> MikeB<mpbrede(at)gmail(dot)com> typed:
>
>> eg. I'd like the function to print
>>
>> 300 bytes iso 300.00 bytes
>>
>> and
>>
>> 4 Kb iso 4.00 Kb.
>>
>> Any hints as to how I can do this?
>
> Use printf(). See
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.printf.php
>
>

I'm using sprintf, which accepts the same inputs as printf. What I can't
grog is how to make the insignificant .00 to not print. The way I read
the sprintf formatting, I can't see how to do zero-suppression on
trailing decimal digits.
Re: Removing insignificant decimal characters? [message #169492 is a reply to message #169487] Wed, 15 September 2010 09:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Greg Russell is currently offline  Greg Russell
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In news:4c90280a$1(at)news(dot)x-privat(dot)org,
MikeB <mpbrede(at)gmail(dot)com> typed:

>>> eg. I'd like the function to print
>>> 300 bytes iso 300.00 bytes
....
>> Use printf().
....
> I'm using sprintf, which accepts the same inputs as printf. What I can't
> grog is how to make the insignificant .00 to not print. The way I read
> the sprintf formatting, I can't see how to do zero-suppression on
> trailing decimal digits.

Someone more versant will no doubt suggest a more concise solution:

<?php
$dvnd = 22;
$dvsr = array(1,2,3,5,7,11);

foreach ($dvsr as $k => $v) {
$result = $dvnd/$v;
if (($dvnd % $v) > 0) {
echo sprintf( "$dvnd/$v = %.4f<br>", $result );
} else {
echo sprintf( "$dvnd/$v = %d<br>", $result );
}
}
?>

produces:

22/1 = 22
22/2 = 11
22/3 = 7.3333
22/5 = 4.4000
22/7 = 3.1429
22/11 = 2

$result = 22/7;
Re: Removing insignificant decimal characters? [message #169505 is a reply to message #169492] Wed, 15 September 2010 16:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
MikeB is currently offline  MikeB
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Greg Russell wrote:
> In news:4c90280a$1(at)news(dot)x-privat(dot)org,
> MikeB<mpbrede(at)gmail(dot)com> typed:
>
>>>> eg. I'd like the function to print
>>>> 300 bytes iso 300.00 bytes
> ...
>>> Use printf().
> ...
>> I'm using sprintf, which accepts the same inputs as printf. What I can't
>> grog is how to make the insignificant .00 to not print. The way I read
>> the sprintf formatting, I can't see how to do zero-suppression on
>> trailing decimal digits.
>
> Someone more versant will no doubt suggest a more concise solution:
>
> <?php
> $dvnd = 22;
> $dvsr = array(1,2,3,5,7,11);
>
> foreach ($dvsr as $k => $v) {
> $result = $dvnd/$v;
> if (($dvnd % $v)> 0) {
> echo sprintf( "$dvnd/$v = %.4f<br>", $result );
> } else {
> echo sprintf( "$dvnd/$v = %d<br>", $result );
> }
> }
> ?>
>
> produces:
>
> 22/1 = 22
> 22/2 = 11
> 22/3 = 7.3333
> 22/5 = 4.4000
> 22/7 = 3.1429
> 22/11 = 2
>
> $result = 22/7;
>
>
>

Pretty neat. Thanks.
Re: Removing insignificant decimal characters? [message #169511 is a reply to message #169492] Thu, 16 September 2010 02:52 Go to previous message
MikeB is currently offline  MikeB
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Greg Russell wrote:
> In news:4c90280a$1(at)news(dot)x-privat(dot)org,
> MikeB<mpbrede(at)gmail(dot)com> typed:
>
>>>> eg. I'd like the function to print
>>>> 300 bytes iso 300.00 bytes
> ...
>>> Use printf().
> ...
>> I'm using sprintf, which accepts the same inputs as printf. What I can't
>> grog is how to make the insignificant .00 to not print. The way I read
>> the sprintf formatting, I can't see how to do zero-suppression on
>> trailing decimal digits.
>
> Someone more versant will no doubt suggest a more concise solution:
>
> <?php
> $dvnd = 22;
> $dvsr = array(1,2,3,5,7,11);
>
> foreach ($dvsr as $k => $v) {
> $result = $dvnd/$v;
> if (($dvnd % $v)> 0) {
> echo sprintf( "$dvnd/$v = %.4f<br>", $result );
> } else {
> echo sprintf( "$dvnd/$v = %d<br>", $result );
> }
> }
> ?>
>
> produces:
>
> 22/1 = 22
> 22/2 = 11
> 22/3 = 7.3333
> 22/5 = 4.4000
> 22/7 = 3.1429
> 22/11 = 2
>
> $result = 22/7;
>
>
>
Greg, just wanted you to know.

I read up the manual (after trying your suggestion) and it turns out
that the modulo divisor (%) converts to integer before doing the
division. I'm not sure why it didn't work for me and apparently worked
for you.

However, I then changed the test to

if ($var > (int) $var)

and that did the trick.

So thanks for getting me on the right track.

M
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