Re: comma-formatting numbers

Here is an example of number format: <? $foo = 100000; echo number_format($foo,2); // displays 100,000.00 ?> --Joe On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:45:16PM -0800, Paul Wolstenholme wrote: > You can do this using the number_format function or probably sprintf. > /Paul > > On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 01:36 PM, Scott Dudley wrote: > > > > >i'm new to php and am having difficulty translating this tiny awk > >function that i use to comma format numbers. can someone assist? my > >stumbling block thus far have been the fact the the php regex matching > >functions don't return the byte offset within the haystack and the regex > >replace functions don't support the awk and perl-like ampersand "&" in > >the replacement pattern. please help and thanks. > > > >function commas(num) { > > while (num ~ /[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/) > > sub (/[0-9][0-9][0-9]$|[0-9][0-9][0-9][,]/, ",&", num) > > > > return num > >} > > > > > >-- > >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 > > > > > -- > 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 Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "How would this sentence be different if pi equaled 3?"