Simon, thanks. Now at last, I know how to continue. 2017-04-04 15:03 GMT+02:00 Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org>:
> > On 4 Apr 2017, at 11:25am, Hans M. van der Meer <drsme...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I am building a simple bookkeeping. > > With PHP and SQLite i now have tables and views with columns for values > and > > prices: not nicely aligned because decimal values are aligned different > > from values that are interpreted as integers. > > Numeric values stored in a SQLite database should be stored as numbers. > This allows you to do calculations on them. They should not have alignment > because they should not be text. > > > I like to create reports in which the column of prices and > > *values are aligned to the right and all figures with two decimals behind > > the decimal point.* > > I can not find a solution, so the question is how to achieve this > > SQLite is a database system. It is used for storing and retrieving > information, not formatting it for people. When presenting your numbers to > people, do your formatting in PHP using sprintf() or vprintf(). > > http://php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php > http://php.net/manual/en/function.vprintf.php > > See example #5 for sprintf() for "padding" which a word relating to > alignment. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
