On Saturday 07 February 2004 23:56, Sebastian wrote:
> Is there a possibility to convert a string like "10*500" (parsed from a
> XML-File) to a float?
> When i try to store this String in a float variable it only coverts the
> "10" but nothing after the "*"-sign, but i need the result of this
> expresison... Is there a function to calculate such string expressions?
Not sure if there is a more elegant way but:
$doo = "10*500";
eval('$dah = ' . $doo . ';');
echo $dah;
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