Tell the scale of the field

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# oci_field_scale

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL OCI8 >= 1.1.0)

oci_field_scale — Tell the scale of the field

### Description

oci_field_scale(resource `$statement`, string|int `$column`): int|false

Returns the scale of the column with `column` index.

For FLOAT columns, precision is nonzero and scale is -127. If precision is 0, then column is NUMBER. Else it's NUMBER(precision, scale).

### Parameters

`statement`

  A valid OCI statement identifier.

`column`

  Can be the field's index (1-based) or name.

### Return Values

Returns the scale as an integer, or `false` on failure

### Examples

Example #1 oci_field_scale() Example

    <?php// Create the table with://   CREATE TABLE mytab (c1 NUMBER, c2 FLOAT, c3 NUMBER(4), c4 NUMBER(5,3));$conn = oci_connect("hr", "hrpwd", "localhost/XE");if (!$conn) {    $m = oci_error();    trigger_error(htmlentities($m['message']), E_USER_ERROR);}$stid = oci_parse($conn, "SELECT * FROM mytab");oci_execute($stid, OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY); // Use OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY if not fetching rows$ncols = oci_num_fields($stid);for ($i = 1; $i <= $ncols; $i++) {    echo oci_field_name($stid, $i) . " "         . oci_field_precision($stid, $i) . " "         . oci_field_scale($stid, $i) . "<br>\n";}// Outputs://   C1    0 -127//   C2  126 -127//   C3    4    0//   C4    5    3oci_free_statement($stid);oci_close($conn);?>

### See Also

- oci_field_precision() - Tell the precision of a field
- oci_field_type() - Returns a field's data type name