I suppose there are a variety of ways to handle this. One of the most straightforward would be the following: 
$val += sprintf( "%.2f", $1 );

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I think that should take care of that. My only concern would be the potential for rounding errors, if any of the numbers that you are matching against have more than two digits after the decimal point. In that case, you might want to just do the sprintf at the end.

If anyone sees a problem with this approach, speak up! I've used it before and would love to know if I boo-booed.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: Unwanted implicit conversion to float by Ovid
in thread Unwanted implicit conversion to float by turnstep

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