Bug #51599 [Opn->Bgs]: Serialize problem with float data

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51599&edit=1

 ID:               51599
 Updated by:       [email protected]
 Reported by:      sdevilcry at gmail dot com
 Summary:          Serialize problem with float data
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Bogus
 Type:             Bug
 Package:          Unknown/Other Function
 Operating System: Linux / Unix
 PHP Version:      Irrelevant

 New Comment:

The output of serialize() isn't meant to be human-readable, it's meant
to be accurate enough that PHP can unserialise the data later into the
exact same values. That level of accuracy is a feature, not a bug, and
as you've already noted, it's due to the way IEEE floats are
represented.

Not a bug: closing.


Previous Comments:
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[2010-04-19 11:41:03] sdevilcry at gmail dot com

Description:
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The problem appears when I want to serialize data like this the test
script submitted 


Output of var_dump : 

string(201)
"a:2:{s:5:"exVAT";a:2:{i:0;d:12.1199999999999992184029906638897955417633056640625;i:1;d:12;}s:6:"incVAT";a:2:{i:0;d:4566768.679999999701976776123046875;i:1;d:34343.33999999999650754034519195556640625;}}"


As you can see, the float data became very long... 
I saw that isn't a bug, but coming from floating data type :

=> http://www.math.byu.edu/~schow/work/IEEEFloatingPoint.htm


Test script:
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// Test float 

function NumericPoint($Data)
{
  return round(floatval(str_replace(',','.', $Data)), 2);
}

$tab = array("12.1222", "12", "4566768.67676767",
"34343.34343434343434");

$infos = array("exVAT" => array(0 => NumericPoint($tab[0]),
      1 => NumericPoint($tab[1])),
    "incVAT" => array(0 => NumericPoint($tab[2]),
      1 => NumericPoint($tab[3])));

$SeriaData = serialize($infos);


var_dump($SeriaData);

// End

Expected result:
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I expect to see the good format of my float data

Actually, to patch this, I don't convert my string to a float and I use
str_replace on my serialize data to delete the double quote and change
's' by 'd'



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