php german locale + float to string conversion: comma and not dot
Problem:
$ php -a
Interactive mode enabled
php > echo (string) 2.5;
2.5
php > setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.UTF-8');
php > echo (string) 2.5;
2,5
php > echo (string) var_export(2.5,true);
2.5
php > echo (string) var_export('2.5', true);
'2.5'
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | <?php /** * Cast variable to string. * Floats get converted correctly without locale problems (always a dot) * * @param mixed $value * * @return string */ function safefloatstr($value) { if (is_float($value)) { return var_export($value, true); } return (string) $value; } ?> |
