Question

How do I convert a String into a Currency

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The webservice that I am using delivers financial data as type String. In my Entity model I use the corresponding data type Currency. How do I convert the String type to a Currency type ?

asked 2011-03-24

Arun Persad

1 answers

Samet Kaya · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-24

Use parseFloat($object/attribute) as stated here to convert the string to a float. After that you could fill your currency with the float.