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Bug #37538 toString in sprintf/printf and %d modifier does't work as expected
Submitted: 2006-05-21 05:40 UTC Modified: 2006-05-21 09:23 UTC
From: mfischer@php.net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Strings related
PHP Version: * OS: *
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 [2006-05-21 05:40 UTC] mfischer@php.net
Description:
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The modifier %d doesn't work as one would expect sprintf/printf. When a string is returned, it is always replaced %d with '1' instead of the evaluated number of the __toString() output.

Consider this:

printf("%s %d", "4", "4");

will output "4 4", however if the parameters are replaced with an object whith magic __toString() which returns "4", %d is not replaced with 4 but with 1. It always returned 1, no matter what __toString() returns.



Reproduce code:
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    class foo {
        function __toString() {
            return "4";
        }
    }
    printf("%s %d\n", new foo, new foo);
    printf("%s %d\n", "4", "4");


Expected result:
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4 4
4 4


Actual result:
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4 1
4 4


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 [2006-05-21 09:23 UTC] helly@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

%d is an integer conversion "(int)$obj" as apposed to a string conversion that is served by __toString().
 
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