System: Linux, Apache with PHP-module
Problem: printf (& sprintf) dosn't handle exponential format for floats correctly

Comment: This isn't actually a bug since it isn't documented to work in the manual.
                I nedded exponential format in my application and since the function
                "formatted_print.c" already had some support for exp. format (but
                not working correctly) the simplest solution was to fix it in the php source code.
                Below is my patch to  "formatted_print.c" if you would like to include it 
                in a future rease of PHP.
                Thanks for a great tool for building web interfaces to databases !

                Regards,
                   -leif



*** formatted_print.c.org	Mon Jan  4 21:06:38 1999
--- formatted_print.c	Mon Jan  4 21:13:09 1999
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*** 257,263 ****
  	} else if (precision > MAX_FLOAT_PRECISION) {
  		precision = MAX_FLOAT_PRECISION;
  	}
! 	cvt = _php3_cvt(number, precision, &decpt, &sign, (fmt == 'e'));
  
  	if (sign) {
  		numbuf[i++] = '-';
--- 257,266 ----
  	} else if (precision > MAX_FLOAT_PRECISION) {
  		precision = MAX_FLOAT_PRECISION;
  	}
! 	if (fmt == 'e')
! 		cvt = _php3_cvt(number, precision+1, &decpt, &sign, 1);
! 	else
! 		cvt = _php3_cvt(number, precision, &decpt, &sign, 0);
  
  	if (sign) {
  		numbuf[i++] = '-';
***************
*** 288,294 ****
  	while (cvt[j]) {
  		numbuf[i++] = cvt[j++];
  	}
! 
  	numbuf[i] = '\0';
  
  	if (precision > 0) {
--- 291,311 ----
  	while (cvt[j]) {
  		numbuf[i++] = cvt[j++];
  	}
! 	if (fmt == 'e')	{
! 		int exponent = decpt-1;
! 		numbuf[i++] = 'e';
! 		if (exponent < 0)
! 			numbuf[i++] = '-';
! 		else
! 			numbuf[i++] = '+';
! 		exponent = abs(exponent);
! 		if (exponent > 99)	{
! 			numbuf[i++] = '0' + exponent / 100;
! 			exponent = exponent % 100;
! 		}
! 		numbuf[i++] = '0' + exponent / 10;
! 		numbuf[i++] = '0' + exponent % 10;
! 	}
  	numbuf[i] = '\0';
  
  	if (precision > 0) {