"Duffy, Scott E" <scott-duffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:E705A777E3A67646B26D7D4D8F760F6504AE1F7A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Are printf and number_format supposed to round? echo ($hcount-$lcount)/$hilow." "; echo number_format(($hcount-$lcount)/$hilow,2,'.',''); 0.20833333333333 0.21 0.14583333333333 0.15 0.16666666666667 0.17 0.083333333333333 0.08 Printf ("%.2f",($hcount-$lcount)/$hilow); Does the same. It would appear to be. If there is a function to print just to the digit could you point me in the direction? So I would want 0.20 0.14 0.16 0.08 respectively. --- You could have the number_format return an extra digit, and then strip that extra digit off. $str = number_format(($hcount-$lcount)/$hilow,3,'.',''); $str = substr($str, 0, 4); // (something like this) DanB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php