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Request #13011 formatting numbers
Submitted: 2001-08-28 20:45 UTC Modified: 2010-12-17 13:16 UTC
From: dcaylor at maf dot org Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 OS: Linux 7.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-08-28 20:45 UTC] dcaylor at maf dot org
It would be extremely helpful to be able to do more formatting of numbers than is currently available.  
Specifically, it would be good if number_format would prepend a dollar sign or allow negative numbers to be shown in brackets rather than with a negative sign.  Both of these are necessary for accounting applications.

My current solution for negative currency looks like this: 
  if ( $value < 0 )
  {
    $value = "(\$".number_format(abs($value),2).")";
  }
which works but is less than ideal.  For one thing, it makes later use of the number difficult.

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 [2002-06-17 13:55 UTC] hholzgra@php.net
sounds like good old BASICs "PRINT USING ..." ?
 [2010-12-17 13:16 UTC] jani@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues
 [2010-12-17 13:16 UTC] jani@php.net
As you have shown, it's very easy to achieve in userland. Not everything and their mom need to have their own native functions and such in PHP..
 
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