From 201ffd3d7a9a7c93b45655e20e8e9bca097caccc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Halbritter <halbritl@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 20:32:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added a method to replace every ',' in a string with a '.'.

---
 app/Http/helpers.php | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/Http/helpers.php b/app/Http/helpers.php
index ec4f914..8587dbd 100644
--- a/app/Http/helpers.php
+++ b/app/Http/helpers.php
@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ function formatAmount(float $amount, $cash = true, $text = false,
     return number_format(abs($amount), $decimals, ',', '.') . $euro;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Replace all commas in a string by a dot. This can be useful to convert
+ * strings that represent a float and use a comma as decimal point to a string
+ * of the same float but with a dot as decimal point.
+ *
+ * @return string
+ */
+function swapComma(string $floatString) {
+    return str_replace(',', '.', $floatString);
+}
+
 /**
  * Return a formatted date string.
  *