Re: newbie question

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:57:35PM +1000, Wang Feng wrote: : : If I get rid of the 0 and tried this: : : $price=.65; : $f_price=sprintf("%1.2f",$price); : : It displays "0.65" in my Mozilla browser correctly. What do you say then? I say, "I dunno". :-) It seems to follow C's printf(3) conversion specification. If a decimal point is needed for a float, it must also have a digit in front of the decimal point. This is kind of annoying if I want to print decimal-only values without preceding zeroes. Maybe money_format() is a better solution. : BTW, what's the 1 used for? Specifies the minimum character width of the conversion. See PHP's sprintf() docs for more details.