Re: sscanf does not rpad zeros?

The scan expression should be: "%02s/%02s/%4s to obtain a zero-padded month: Date: 06/15/2003 MM: 06 DD: 15 YYYY: 2003 Jeffery Cann wrote: > Greetings. > > The following bit of code: > > <?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'. I want the parsed month to be zero padded. Have I missed > something? Possibly this is a bug? > > 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); > > Thanks > Jeff > > -- > jccann [at] home [dot] com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- jccann [at] home [dot] com