Hi, Eugene,
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?
BTW, what's the 1 used for?
cheers,
feng
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] newbie question
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:09:21PM +1000, Wang Feng wrote:
> :
> : This is the example from the php manual:
> [...]
> : $formatted = sprintf("%01.2f", $money); // my question comes here
> : // echo $formatted will output "123.10"
> [...]
> :
> : I don't understand the meaning of the 01 above, which follows the %
sign. I
> : tried the "%.2f" and "%1.2f", both work fine. So, what's the meaning of
> : 01(especially what the 0 is for)? Seems very much the same as C anyway
:-).
>
> The "01" part guarantees that your money always has a preceding "0" for
> decimal-only amounts. For example, ".15" should be displayed as "0.15".
>
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