NAME

HTML::FormHandler::Field::Float - validate a float value

VERSION

version 0.40006

DESCRIPTION

This accepts a positive or negative float/integer. Negative numbers may be prefixed with a dash. By default a max of eight digits including 2 precision are accepted. Default decimal symbol is ','. Widget type is 'text'.

# For example 1234,12 has size of 6 and precision of 2
# and separator symbol of ','

has_field 'test_result' => (
    type                    => 'FloatNumber',
    size                    => 8,               # Total size of number including decimal part.
    precision               => 2,               # Size of the part after decimal symbol.
    decimal_symbol          => '.',             # Decimal symbol accepted in web page form
    decimal_symbol_for_db   => '.',             # For inflation. Decimal symbol accepted in DB, which automatically converted to.
    range_start             => 0,
    range_end               => 100
);

messages

float_needed
float_size
float_precision

AUTHOR

FormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Gerda Shank.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.