note 83438 added to function.number-format

It's pity that the function supports one-byte characters only for "thousands separator". For English it works well but for French and Russian it makes problem. Developers should use character &#160; or chr(0xA0) as "thousands separator" to avoid the number of being moved to a new line in HTML-documents. But number_format() didn't understand that symbol. To solve the problem, we wrote our own variant of number_format(): <?php /* Replacement for number_format() */ function my_number_format($n, $decimals = 0, $dec_point = ',', $thousands_sep = '&#160;') { $b = explode('.', $n); $rn = ''; $l = strlen($b[0]); /* Reverse string */ for ($i = $l; $i > 3; $i -= 3) { $rn = $thousands_sep . substr($b[0], $i - 3, 3) . $rn; } /* sprintf() used to correct 0.79 to 0.790 */ /* str_replace() used to correct decimals */ /* str_repeat() used to correct decimals */ return substr($b[0], 0, $i) . $rn . ($decimals ? $dec_point.(isset($b[1]) ? str_replace('0.', '', sprintf('%0.'.$decimals.'f', '0.'.$b[1])) : str_repeat(0, $decimals)) : ''); } /* Outputs 123&#160;456,790 */ print my_number_format(123456.78987, 3); ?> It can be optimized more, but this variant works well also. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 213.183.252.21 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/83438 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83438/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83438/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83438/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83438/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83438/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83438/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/83438 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/83438 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php