Re: Formatting of a number

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Hi Scott,

How do you distinguish between a value filled with zeroes and a value
with 0 in both decimal positions?

For example, why is 3145900 expressed as 3,145.90, and not 31,459.00?

Cheers,

David Grant

Scott Parks wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> I have a number that I am trying to format.  It is data coming from a
> main frame and
> has 8 characters assigned to it (6 and two decimal places).  I have
> zerofill set up in
> MySQL on this field and am working on the best way to display the number.
> 
> Currently I have this:
> 
> $sOutput = number_format(rtrim($sValue,'0') /100,2);
> 
> What I am running into is this, I have a number in this field as:
> 3145900, using the above I will get:  314.59, which is wrong, it
> needs to be 3,145.90.
> 
> Yet, if I have a number of:  749450, I get the result I am looking for
> of 749.45.
> 
> I did not see a way to tell trim I only want one 0 cut?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> -Scott
> 
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