PHP string has thousand Separators Multiplication-CodePudding

I have two strings. the one has a thousand separator as a comma, the other one has a decimal point as a dot.

below is my example code for explanation.

$number1 = "250,000";
$number2 = "1.000";

what I want to do is to multiply those two strings. I somewhat found that PHP thinks the comma as a floating point!

echo number_format($number1 , 3, ".", ",");

//result : 250.000 value type is still a string

I have already used the floatval() method but maybe i havn't used it in a proper way.

please can anyone help me with this problem? I want to multiply those two...

CodePudding user response：

you can do this way

    $number1 = "250,000";
    $number2 = "1.000";

    $number1 = (float) str_replace(',', '', $number1);
    $number2 = (float) str_replace(',', '', $number2);

    $total = $number1 * $number2;
    echo  $total; // output => 250000.0

CodePudding user response：

You can use string manipulation like str_replace().

<?php

function parseFloatFromString($string)
{
    $string = str_replace(',', '', $string);
    $float = floatval($string);
    return $float;
}

echo parseFloatFromString("250,000") * parseFloatFromString("1.000");