On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 12:19, Wang Feng wrote:
> I think, without any help, the only way to make it clear is to read the
> source code of that function in php. The manual doesn't explain the function
> well.
>
> But I'm sure many people here knows the answer well. Come on. Where are you?
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 say
> 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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