String Manipulation

Anon

How it´s possible to insert characters into an existing string with php3-commands, for example :

$price="100000"

into

$price2="100.000,00"

depending on length of this string, so that

1000 -> 1.000,00
10000 -> 10.000,00
100000 -> 100.000,00
1000000 -> 1.000.000,00
...

THX for Helping

svobi

have y tried it with number_format()?

take a look at:

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

Anon

Also note:

1.000.000,00

doesn't make sense. Should be

1,000,000.00

Minor issue - but made it harder to figure out what you were after until I realized the switch.

-Ben

yelvington

No, Harald was right. Americans, who rarely travel outside their own borders, often do not know that conventions regarding the format of numbers may vary by locale.

In Germany (where Harald is posting from) the number one million and twenty hundredths would be written

1.000.000,20

In the USA, of course, it would be

1,000,000.20

and in France it might be

1 000 000,20

This is why PGP provides the number_format() function. It's not full-blown internationalization, but it gives you the tools you need to handle alternate representations.

Anon

Americans, who rarely travel outside their
own borders, often do not know that
conventions regarding the format of numbers
may vary by locale.

How right you are ! You may ignore it, but localization is sometimes a real nightmare for non-english people. Number format, date format (I never understood why you put day AFTER month in mm/dd/yyyy), accented characters (you're lucky with your 7-bit letters, you never receive bad decoded characters in your e-mails)... And don't forget asiatic users, it must be still worse...