[PHP] Re: Dynamic constant names -SOLVED

2001-03-27 Thread Art Wells
My apologies for assuming too much of the variable names. Thank you for correcting me. Your response has caused me good confusion though. If I remove the ${...} notation I get quite a different output (specifically, there's no output). Are you sure the parser ignores it? This is the code I sug

[PHP] Re: Re[PHP] Dynamic constant names -SOLVED

2001-03-27 Thread Art Wells
I'm sorry to jump in mid-stream here (I've been offline for a while), but was $constant_value=${constant_name}; suggested? eval's spook me, so I would prefer this solution over the working suggestion you received. This works for me on 4.0.4: $test_name="ta_dah"; define("constant_name","test_nam

[PHP] Re: Get rid of da Zero's

2001-01-26 Thread Art Wells
preg_replace("/0+$/","",$number); On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Ethan Nelson wrote: > Almost there... actually this creates one problem... > > It turns 40.00 into 4 > > It needs to quit shaving zero's when it hits the decimal point. > > 40.00 into 40 > 45.50 into 45.5 > 40.25 into 40.25 > > Thanks > > --

[PHP] Re: Fwd: Help - removal of trailing zeros from double integer field

2001-01-20 Thread Art Wells
This might help. $no_trailing_zeroes = preg_replace("/0+$/","",$trailing_zeroes); > Dear friends, > > I am accessing MySQL database using apache and php. > I have to display a double integer field without trailing zeros. > The number of digits after the decimal point varies. > > I have tried se