number_format-ing

[webmaster1721]

Does anyone know how to take a number such as 0.531 and get it to display as .531 -- that is drop the leading zero? Is there an option in number_format to do this?

[bradgrafelman]

Not too sure about that, and I'm not seeing anything with sprintf(), so here's most likely an unconvential, though working, solution:

$num = 0.531;
if(substr($num, 0, 2) == "0.") { $num = substr($num, 1); }

sets $num to .531

$num = 5.31;
if(substr($num, 0, 2) == "0.") { $num = substr($num, 1); }

sets $num to 5.31

Hope that helps!

[webmaster1721]

Yeah, I couldn't find anything either and I was hoping to avoid substr functions that simply add more code...

I'll give your example a shot.

Thanks.