Re: Any reason why printf() does not support formats with thousands separator?
| From: | John Iliffe | Date: | Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:36:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Any reason why printf() does not support formats with thousands separator? | ||
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On Monday 10 July 2017 03:07:50 Per Jessen wrote:
> $SUBJ says it all - I've recently discovered that a format such
> as %'.2f" results in this:
>
> php -r "printf(\"%'.2f\", 23232323.237);"
> 23232323.237000
>
> I know that number_format() will do the same, but I am given the format
> spec as an interface, I would need to try to parse it and then decide
> whether to use printf() or number_format().
Try
php -r "printf(\"%.2f\", 232323.4567);"
232323.46
John