On Tuesday 25 September 2001 18:48, Jason Bell wrote:
> What if I want to pad a number with zeros in the other direction?  I.E:
>
>
> 524 becomes 00524
>

printf('%05d',$the_number);

Prints the number padded to 5 chars with 0.

I suggest you read the manual about printf() and sprintf() functions (there 
are good examples about formatting in sprintf()'s documentation).

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Meir Kriheli

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Dechery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Kurth Bemis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] 2 decimal places
>
> > At 22:22 19/09/01 -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> > >i'm looking for a php function to add 2 decimal place sto a number.  if
> > >the number already have one decimal place then one more zero should be
> > >added to make it two decimal places....anyone know of a quick way to do
>
> this?
>
> > $number=32.5;
> >
> > echo number_format($number,2);
> >
> > outputs:
> > "32.50"
> >
> >
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