From 49ab75afe8605ff2703a3094561ad4cc01ab2952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Ramon Enslin <joshua@museum-digital.de>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 00:19:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add new function MD_STD_IN::sanitize_float

---
 MD_STD_IN.php | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MD_STD_IN.php b/MD_STD_IN.php
index f4b555d..ce56f6e 100644
--- a/MD_STD_IN.php
+++ b/MD_STD_IN.php
@@ -176,4 +176,21 @@ final class MD_STD_IN {
 
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sanitizes a string to a float.
+     *
+     * @param string $input Input string.
+     *
+     * @return float
+     */
+    final public static function sanitize_float(string $input):float {
+
+        $output = \str_replace(",", ".", $input);
+        if (($output = \filter_var($output, FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT)) === false) {
+            throw new MDgenericInvalidInputsException("Input is readable as a floating point value");
+        }
+        return $output;
+
+    }
+
 }