<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Sign of number</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.gmp-setbit.html">gmp_setbit</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.gmp-sqrt.html">gmp_sqrt</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.gmp.html">GMP Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.gmp-sign" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">gmp_sign</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">gmp_sign</span> — <span class="dc-title">Sign of number</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.gmp-sign-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>gmp_sign</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$a</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Checks the sign of a number. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.gmp-sign-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">a</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para">It can be either a GMP number <span class="type"><a href="language.types.resource.html" class="type resource">resource</a></span>, or a numeric string given that it is possible to convert the latter to a number.</p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.gmp-sign-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns 1 if <em><code class="parameter">a</code></em> is positive, -1 if <em><code class="parameter">a</code></em> is negative, and 0 if <em><code class="parameter">a</code></em> is zero. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.gmp-sign-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-3434"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>gmp_sign()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// positive<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">gmp_sign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"500"</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// negative<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">gmp_sign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"-500"</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// zero<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">gmp_sign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"0"</span><span style="color: #007700">) . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> 1 -1 0 </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.gmp-sign-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.gmp-abs.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">gmp_abs()</a> - Absolute value</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.abs.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">abs()</a> - Absolute value</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.gmp-setbit.html">gmp_setbit</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.gmp-sqrt.html">gmp_sqrt</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.gmp.html">GMP Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>