note 7951 added to printf

There are times when you don't want a number like .0002 to be truncated to .00 - where you'd like to actually have at least some number of significant digits, not just the decimal places. Here's a sample of how you might do that, although scientific notation might be better. Why doesn't PHP support some of the other C style floating point formats? // string FloatFormat(float $Value, int $Precision) // - AGS 21/08/2000 // //There is no range checking performed here so the // function will vaporize on out of range values. function FloatFormat($Value, $Precision) { $decimals = log10(abs($Value)); $decimals = - (intval(min($decimals, 0)) - $Precision); $format = "%." . $decimals . "f"; return sprintf($format, $Value); } http://www.php.net/manual/function.printf.php