"Scott Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Hi-
>
> I have a number that I am trying to format.  It is data coming from a 
> main frame and
> has 8 characters assigned to it (6 and two decimal places).  I have 
> zerofill set up in
> MySQL on this field and am working on the best way to display the  number.
>
> Currently I have this:
>
> $sOutput = number_format(rtrim($sValue,'0') /100,2);
>
> What I am running into is this, I have a number in this field as:
> 3145900, using the above I will get:  314.59, which is wrong, it
> needs to be 3,145.90.
>
> Yet, if I have a number of:  749450, I get the result I am looking for
> of 749.45.
>
> I did not see a way to tell trim I only want one 0 cut?

Just convert the string into a number, and work with it as a number:

// first, convert the string into a number (assuming 3 decimals, as your 
example shows)
$nValue = floatval($sValue) / 1000;
// then, format it
$sOutput = number_format($nNumber, 2);

DanB

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