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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