Jennifer wrote: > On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Jim Lucas wrote: >> Could you explain the use of what you're describing/requesting? >> >> And how number_format would not work in its place. > > I'm talking about entering large numbers in the code. If I have a constant, e.g. > $num = '123456789'; > > it would be nice to enter it as: > $num = '123_456_789'; > > just to make it easier to read. As I mentioned, you can do that in Perl. The underscore takes the place of commas only for readability. It's not a deal breaker, but it sure would be nice! :) Besides Perl, there are several other languages which allow such "digit separators". Wikipedia has an article about it: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_literal#Digit_separators>. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
