If there's one thing your competitor probably isn't doing, when it comes to online tools, it's accepting fractions for numeric input.<\/p>\n
For instance, if you have a tool that calculates the square footage of a room, why not allow the user to enter:<\/p>\n
Width: 5 3\/4
\n\tLength: -2 3\/8<\/p>\n
Using ColdFusion for our example, by running your fields through a loop and detecting the presence of a "\/" in the input, we can convert the value to a decimal number for use in our processing script:<\/p>\n
If there's one thing your competitor probably isn't doing, when it comes to online tools, it's accepting fractions for numeric input. For instance, if you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[15,34],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<cfloop collection="#url#" item="key">
\n\t <cfif Find("\/", url[key])>
\n\t <cfset url[key] = trim(url[key])>
\n\t <cfset frac = ListLast(url[key], " ")>
\n\t <cfif frac eq url[key]><cfset url[key] = 0><\/cfif>
\n\t <cfif Left(url[key], 1) neq "-">
\n\t <cfset url[key] = Val(url[key]) + Evaluate(frac)>
\n\t <cfelse>
\n\t <cfset url[key] = Val(url[key]) - Evaluate(frac)>
\n\t <\/cfif>
\n\t <\/cfif>
\n\t<\/cfloop>
\n\t<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"