How do you round a remainder?

[neophyte]

Hello All -

I've got a project that requires a currency display that acts like this:

$1.01 (through $1.49) would be rounded to $1.50

and

$1.51 (through $1.99) would be rounded to $2.00

The second one is easy with ciel(), but I'm wondering if there's already a built-in function that convert .01 to .49 to .50 ... or will I have to write my own function to detect these float values and round accordingly?

Neophyte

[willybfriendly]

Does round() [us.php.net] work?

[neophyte]

Hi Willybfriendly

round() works in the way one would expect it to, but the specification I'm working to is out of the ordinary.

For example:

if you use the round() function with 2 places of precision - i.e. round(f, 2) - on a number like this: 1.0347682119205, you would get the expected 1.03.

However, my specification calls for rounding any remainders UP to the NEXT .5. Accordingly, I need 1.0347682119205 to be displayed like so: 1.50. If the number were 1.5347682119205, I need the result to be like this: 2.00.

That's what I need to happen.

I've looked at the different rounding functions in the PHP manual, and it looks like I might have to write my own function to evaluate the remainder and tack on a ".50" or ".00" as appropriate, but just wanted to know if anyone else has had the need to do this and has found an off the shelf solution.

Neophyte

[neophyte]

Hello All -

Just decided to do it my self. Here's the result for anyone else who might be interested:

<?php

// Round a number's REMAINDER to the next .50.
function roundFifty($num)
{
if(is_float($num))
{
$x = explode('.', round($num, 2), 2);
$x = $x[1] <= '50' ? $x[0] . '.50' : $x[0] + 1 . '.00';
return $x;
}
else
{
return $num . '.00';
}
}

$n = 1.5347682119205;

echo roundFifty($n);

?>

Neophyte

[pinterface]

That function seems pretty long! Surely something a little shorter would have been easier?

function ceil_half($num)
/** Like ceil(), but in increments of 0.5 rather than 1.0. */
{ return ceil($num*2)/2; }

or more generally

ceil_fraction($num, $fraction)
/** Like ceil(), but in increments of $fraction rather than 1.0. */
{ return ceil($num/$fraction)*$fraction; }

?

map ceil_fraction(_, 1/2), [0.99, 1.00, 1.01, 1.24, 1.25, 1.49, 1.50, 1.51] =>
[1.00, 1.00, 1.50, 1.50, 1.50, 1.50, 1.50, 2.00]

map ceil_fraction(_, 1/4), [0.99, 1.00, 1.01, 1.24, 1.25, 1.49, 1.50, 1.51] =>
[1.00, 1.00, 1.25, 1.25, 1.25, 1.50, 1.50, 1.75]

[neophyte]

Printerface -

Thanks for that - less is generally better and it looks like the way you've written it, it's somewhat more flexible. I'll test it against what I have to do later this day.

Appreciate the input!

Neophyte