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Bug #39126 String->float->String conversion behavior
Submitted: 2006-10-11 15:32 UTC Modified: 2006-10-11 16:13 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: bobson at rpg dot pl Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 5CVS-2006-10-11 (snap) OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2006-10-11 15:32 UTC] bobson at rpg dot pl
Description:
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When converting to float from string, its always use "." as a decimal separator, but echo shows decimal separator using locale definition.
Because of that there's a problem eg. in dbase function on numeric(float) fields.

Reproduce code:
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setlocale(LC_ALL,"pl_PL");
echo '1.2*1=';
echo "1.2"*1;
//produce 1.2*1=1,2
echo '1,2*1=';
echo "1,2"*1;
//produce 1,2*1=1 <- this was expected to produce 1,2 float on pl_PL (in PL decimal separator is ",")

setlocale(LC_ALL,"en_EN");
echo '1.2*1=';
echo "1.2"*1;
//produce 1.2*1=1.2
echo '1,2*1=';
echo "1,2"*1;
//produce 1,2*1=1 <- correct on en_EN

//the most ugly examlpe
setlocale(LC_ALL,"pl_PL");
echo (("1.2"*1)."")*1; //produce 1 
echo (("1,2"*1)."")*1; //also produce 1 


Expected result:
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on pl_PL
1
1,2

on en_EN
1.2
1

last one example code:
1
1,2

Actual result:
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on pl_PL
1,2
1

on en_EN
1.2
1

last one example code:
1
1

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 [2006-10-11 15:59 UTC] tony2001@php.net
The output may differe depending on your localem but the input must always be the same, otherwise your script would not work on servers with different locales.
 [2006-10-11 16:13 UTC] bobson at rpg dot pl
Yes and no in fact.
Using the same decimal separator on all platform is nice but-
When you using input from browser (POST) in Poland you will get "," as decimal separator when someone type from numeric keypad. 
Second:
Try to read dbase file with numeric(4,2) field and float value in it. Set locale to "pl_PL" first. Because of float->string translation using locale you will never get float from that numeric (because dbase reading procedure make float->string->float convert. float->string using locale. string->float without using locale. It makes value truncated to integer part of it).
 
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