Req #21913 [Opn->Csd]: formatting for sci notation

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=21913&edit=1 ID: 21913 Updated by: nikic@php.net Reported by: sprice at wisc dot edu Summary: formatting for sci notation -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues Operating System: Mac OS X.2.3 PHP Version: 4.3.0 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: nikic Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Closing as scientific notation is already available via %e, %E (and %g, %G for mixed). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-27 19:30:52] sprice at wisc dot edu I humbly request that scientific notation formatting (ex. 7.16e-11) is added to the function sprintf(). Currently I am using a function supplied by another user: function sci($x, $d=-1) { $e=floor(log10($x)); $x*=pow(10,-$e); $fmt=($d>=0)?".".$d:""; $e=($e>=0)?"+".sprintf("%02d",$e):"-".sprintf("%02d",-$e); return sprintf("%".$fmt."fe%s",$x,$e); } and can be found in the comments of this page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php This function seems to be working fine for the time being, but this seems like somethine many other people would use and an addition to PHP itself would be better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=21913&edit=1