Posted by Gerry Danen on 01/10/06 23:36

sprintf creates a string ready for you to manipulate. So does
number_format. Pick whatever is best for your purpose.

See http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php and
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php for more info.

Gerry


On 1/10/06, Mark Steudel <mark@netriver.net> wrote:
> Can I do this all with sprintf or do I then need to convert it to a string
> and chop off what I don't want?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerry Danen [mailto:gdanen@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 3:35 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Floating numbers truncating to two digits without
> rounding
>
> Mark,
>
> Why not use sprintf() with an arbitrary large number of decimals and then
> discard all but the 2 you want. I.e., format with 10 decimals and then drop
> the last 8.
>
>

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