formatting number

[Alain Dhaene]

Hi

Can sombody tell me the best way to format a number in this way.

456.45657 must be 456,46

So the point becoms a comma and I would have 2 digits i.pv. 5

thanks,

Alain

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: formatting number

I noticed that Message-ID: <c586i6$3go$1@n ews.worldonline .be> from Alain
Dhaene contained the following:
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>Can sombody tell me the best way to format a number in this way.
>
>456.45657 must be 456,46
>
>So the point becoms a comma and I would have 2 digits i.pv. 5[/color]

http://uk.php.net/number_format

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[Joachim Mæland]

Re: formatting number

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:14:16 +0200, Alain Dhaene wrote:
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> Can sombody tell me the best way to format a number in this way.
>
> 456.45657 must be 456,46
>
> So the point becoms a comma and I would have 2 digits i.pv. 5[/color]

Take care of precision:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.round.php

Fix the output format:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php

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[Chung Leong]

Re: formatting number

"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog .co.uk> wrote in message
news:9n8f701il9 vp5psf7mftcvh27 k3a151k6t@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
> I noticed that Message-ID: <c586i6$3go$1@n ews.worldonline .be> from Alain
> Dhaene contained the following:
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> >Can sombody tell me the best way to format a number in this way.
> >
> >456.45657 must be 456,46
> >
> >So the point becoms a comma and I would have 2 digits i.pv. 5[/color]
>
> http://uk.php.net/number_format[/color]

There's also setlocale(), although using it is somewhat dicey.