implied decimal

[chrisleon]

If I have a value of 19750, and I know that is an implied decimal of 3 spaces ie. 19.750, how do I format to appear like that. I can substr all day long, but if there is a number_format or sprintf way to do this, that would be awesome

any help would be great

[chrisleon]

If I have a value of 19750, and I know that is an implied decimal of 3 spaces ie. 19.750, how do I format to appear like that. I can substr all day long, but if there is a number_format or sprintf way to do this, that would be awesome

any help would be great

[Weedpacket]

chrisleon wrote:

if there is a number_format or sprintf way to do this, that would be awesome

Have you considered dividing by 1000 first?

[NogDog]

I won't claim this is the "best" way, but it's probably what I'd do if it's just an output issue:

printf ("The value is %.3f", $value / 1000);

If you want to assign it to a variable, it might be more efficient to do:

$var = round($value / 1000, 3); // makes sure there is no floating point precision problem

[dougal85]

dupe post: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?p=10856382#post10856382

chrisleon, you only need to post in one section of the board. Most members will check multiple sections anyway.

[NogDog]

Cross-posted threads merged. :glare:

[Weedpacket]

And duplicate post deleted 🙂