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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting decimal output "bc not working" Post 302259490 by danmero on Tuesday 18th of November 2008 08:34:52 AM
Old 11-18-2008
man bc
Quote:
...scale defines how some operations use digits after the decimal point. The default value of scale is 0.
Code:
echo 'scale=2; 1 / 5' | bc

 

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INGRES_FIELD_SCALE(3)							 1						     INGRES_FIELD_SCALE(3)

ingres_field_scale - Get the scale of a field

SYNOPSIS
int ingres_field_scale (resource $result, int $index) DESCRIPTION
ingres_field_scale(3) returns the scale of a field. This value is used only for the decimal SQL data type. For detailed information, see the Ingres OpenAPI User Guide, Appendix "Data Types" in the Ingres documentation. Note Related Configurations See ingres.array_index_start in Runtime Configuration PARAMETERS
o $result - The query result identifier o $index -$index is the field whose scale will be retrieved. The possible values of $index depend upon the value of ingres.array_index_start. If ingres.array_index_start is 1 (the default) then $index must be between 1 and the value returned by ingres_num_fields(3). If ingres.array_index_start is 0 then $index must be between 0 and ingres_num_fields(3) - 1. RETURN VALUES
Returns the scale of the field, as an integer SEE ALSO
ingres_query(3), ingres_fetch_array(3), ingres_fetch_assoc(3), ingres_fetch_object(3), ingres_fetch_row(3). PHP Documentation Group INGRES_FIELD_SCALE(3)
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