Check for equality on a MySQL Float field

Question

I have a Joomla system and I\'m trying to change the search so that it correctly finds floating point values in the database.

So, I have a query that is built at runtime

Answer 1

I found a way to check for what my users view as equality.

I had to convert the field to a character string and test the character sets, so this works fine for them:

select 'column1'
from 'some_table'
where CAST('some_float_field' AS CHAR) <=> '2.18'