Re: Formating

Bruno B B Magalhães wrote:

Hi everybody, I've searched the docs for a generic way to format strings and numbers... For example I have a brazilian zipcode witch is stored in database as 22252970 and must be formatted as NNNNN-NNN, where N is a number. Also I have a tax id with is also stored as numeric value only, for example 05117635472 and outputted as NNN.NNN.NNN-NN... Is that any way that I can do it generic, storing the formatting strings ('NNNNN- NNN') with languages strings, so it is localised and this would be parsed as:

I don't think the format string for such data should be bound to the locale, i.e. a brazilian zipcode should be formatted as stated regardless of whether I view a page in english, french or spanish, no? also take a good look at sprintf(), printf() & co: http://php.net/sprintf

string::format($string, $format); Best Regards, Bruno B B Magalhaes