"1. An optional padding specifier that says what character will be used for
padding the results to the right string size. This may be a space character
or a 0 (zero character). The default is to pad with spaces. An alternate
padding character can be specified by prefixing it with a single quote (').
See the examples below."
"3. An optional number, a width specifier that says how many characters
(minimum) this conversion should result in."
---- http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php
Assume that $price=.65; then the "%0.2f" yields 0.65.
If we follow what the manual says, then can you tell me what the 0 is used
for? Is it a (optional) paddinng spcifier OR is it a (optional) width
specifier OR both? And why does it yiled 0.65 rather than .65?
(The manual doesn't explain things clear, man.)
cheers,
feng
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Wang Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Curt Zirzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP-General"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] newbie question
> I believe the documentation (in at least on of the ?printf() functions
> describes how the implementation follows the C specs. I'm pretty sure
> the ?printf() family of functions were added almost entirely for the
> benefit of C coders :)
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
>
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > feng
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Curt Zirzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] newbie question
> >
> >
> > > * Thus wrote Eugene Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:57:35PM +1000, Wang Feng wrote:
> > > > :
> > > > : If I get rid of the 0 and tried this:
> > > > :
> > > > : $price=.65;
> > > > : $f_price=sprintf("%1.2f",$price);
> > > > :
> > > > : It displays "0.65" in my Mozilla browser correctly. What do you sa
y
> > then?
> > > >
> > > > I say, "I dunno". :-) It seems to follow C's printf(3) conversion
> > > > specification. If a decimal point is needed for a float, it must
also
> > > > have a digit in front of the decimal point. This is kind of
annoying if
> > > > I want to print decimal-only values without preceding zeroes. Maybe
> > > > money_format() is a better solution.
> > >
> > > yep, and even "%0.2f" yields 0.65
> > >
> > >
> > > Curt
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