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

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54287&edit=1 ID: 54287 Comment by: carsten_sttgt at gmx dot de Reported by: accounts at rgloyer dot de Summary: Notation of the placeholders seems wrong Status: Bogus Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: @aharvey > The examples are (intentionally) incomplete: What's the sense of a /intentionally/ incomplete example? In my opinion it's just a wrong example and thus a documentation problem. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-17 08:21:32] aharvey@php.net The examples are (intentionally) incomplete: if you define $num and $location, you won't get the warnings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-03-17 08:03:26] accounts at rgloyer dot de 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54287&edit=1