PHP 4.0 Bug #7705 Updated: sscanf does not zero pad decimal

ID: 7705 Updated by: derick Reported By: jccann@home.com Status: Closed Bug Type: *General Issues Assigned To: Comments: This is not a bug, you parsed the day with a %02d, zo the value is interpreted as an number, if you'd used: sscanf( $Date, "%02s/%02s/%4d", &$DateMM, &$DateDD, &$DateYYYY ); it would be fine (because then it's parsed as a string). Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-08 20:31:55] jccann@home.com <?php $Date = "06/15/2003"; sscanf( $Date, "%02d/%02d/%4d", &$DateMM, &$DateDD, &$DateYYYY ); print "date: $Date<br>"; print "MM: $DateMM<br>"; print "DD: $DateDD<br>"; print "YYYY: $DateYYYY<br>" ?> produces this output: Date: 06/15/2003 MM: 6 DD: 15 YYYY: 2003 Notice that for $DateMM, I specified '%02d", yet the parsed month is '6' and not '06'. According to Example 1 in the PHP manual for sprintf (http://www.php.net/manual/html/function.sprintf.html) the correct format for zero padded integers is: sprintf ("%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $month, $day); --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7705