Here is an example of number format:

<?

  $foo = 100000;

  echo number_format($foo,2); // displays 100,000.00

?>

--Joe


On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:45:16PM -0800, Paul Wolstenholme wrote:
> You can do this using the number_format function or probably sprintf.
> /Paul
> 
> On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 01:36  PM, Scott Dudley wrote:
> 
> >
> >i'm new to php and am having difficulty translating this tiny awk
> >function that i use to comma format numbers.  can someone assist?  my
> >stumbling block thus far have been the fact the the php regex matching
> >functions don't return the byte offset within the haystack and the regex
> >replace functions don't support the awk and perl-like ampersand "&" in
> >the replacement pattern.  please help and thanks.
> >
> >function commas(num) {
> >  while (num ~ /[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/)
> >    sub (/[0-9][0-9][0-9]$|[0-9][0-9][0-9][,]/, ",&", num)
> >
> >  return num
> >}
> >
> >
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