Doc #54287 [NEW]: Notation of the placeholders seems wrong

From: Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Notation of the placeholders seems wrong Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.sprintf#Parameters --- From the manual page: Example #3 Argument swapping <?php $format = 'The %2$s contains %1$d monkeys'; printf($format, $num, $location); ?> This doesn't work. I get the error: undefined variable It works if i write: %2\$s and %1\$d -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54287&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54287&r=mysqlcfg