Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
Am I missing something really obvious here?
This is an inherent problem with floating-point operations, especially
comparison, and is not unique to PHP. Often numbers will be off by
some miniscule amount, just enough to make them not equal.
What I would do in
That did the trick.
Thanks a million.
Brian
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> Brian P. O'Donnell wrote:
> > >
> > $a = 252.73;
> > $b = 252.73;
> > $c = 0;
> >
> > if ($a == ($b + $c))
> > {
> > // do the first thing
> > }
> > elseif ($a > ($b
What other values are you trying? I tested it and it seems to work the way
it's supposed to.
Changing just $a, I get the expected > or < results. Changing $a and $b so
that $a always equals $b it always returns the first option.
Your test values for $a and $b that yield odd results would be h
Brian P. O'Donnell wrote:
($b + $c))
{
// do the second thing
}
elseif ($a < ($b + $c))
{
// do the third thing
}
?>
Each of the three variables is derived by some earlier calculation, but for
testing purposes I have made sure that they end up being $a = $b and $c = 0.
I have tested for three
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($b + $c))
{
// do the second thing
}
elseif ($a < ($b + $c))
{
// do the third thing
}
?>
Each of the three variables is derived by some earlier calculation, but
for
testing purposes I have made sure that they end up being $a = $b and $c
= 0.
I have tested for three different values (of
Hello
I have the following code:
($b + $c))
{
// do the second thing
}
elseif ($a < ($b + $c))
{
// do the third thing
}
?>
Each of the three variables is derived by some earlier calculation, but for
testing purposes I have made sure that they end up being $a = $b and $c = 0.
I have tested for
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