sprintf

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

sprintf -- Возвращает отформатированную строку

Описание

string sprintf ( string format [, mixed args] )

Возвращает строку, созданную с использованием строки формата format.

Строка формата состоит из директив: обычных символов (за исключением %), которые копируются в результирующую строку, и описатели преобразований, каждый из которых заменяется на один из параметров. Это относится также к fprintf(), sprintf() и printf().

Каждый описатель прреобразований состоит из знака процента (%), за которым следует один или более дополнительных элементов (в том порядке, в котором они здесь перечислены):

  1. Необязательный описатель заполнения, который определяет, какой символ будет использоваться для дополнения результата до необходимой длины. Это может быть пробел или 0. По умолчанию используется пробел. Альтернативный символ может быть указан с помощью '. См. примеры ниже.

  2. Необязательный описатель выравнивания, определяющий выранивание влево или вправо. По умолчанию выравнивается вправо, - используется для выравнивания влево.

  3. Необязательное число, описатель ширины, определяющий минимальное число символов, которое будет содержать результат этого преобразования.

  4. Необязательный описатель точности, определяющий, сколько десятичных разрядов отображать для чисел с плавающей точкой. Имеет смысл только для числовых данных типа float. (Для форматирования чисел удобно также использовать функцию number_format().)

  5. Описатель типа, определяющий, как трактовать тип данных аргумента. Допустимые типы:

    % - символ процента. Аргумент не используется.
    b - аргумент трактуется как целое и выводится в виде двоичного числа.
    c - аргумент трактуется как целое и выводится в виде символа с соответствующим кодом ASCII.
    d - аргумент трактуется как целое и выводится в виде десятичного числа со знаком.
    e - аргумент трактуется как float и выводится в научной нотации (например 1.2e+2).
    u - аргумент трактуется как целое и выводится в виде десятичного числа без знака.
    f - аргумент трактуется как float и выводится в виде десятичного числа с плавающей точкой.
    o - аргумент трактуется как целое и выводится в виде восьмеричного числа.
    s - аргумент трактуется как строка.
    x - аргумент трактуется как целое и выводится в виде шестнадцатиричного числа (в нижнем регистре букв).
    X - аргумент трактуется как целое и выводится в виде шестнадцатиричного числа (в верхнем регистре букв).

Начиная с PHP 4.0.6 в строке формата поддерживается нумерация и изменение порядка параметров. Например:

Пример 1. Изменение порядка параметров

<?php
$format = "There are %d monkeys in the %s";
printf($format, $num, $location);
?>
Этот код выведет "There are 5 monkeys in the tree". Теперь представьте, что строка формата содержится в отдельном файле, который потом будет переведен на другой язык, и мы переписываем ее в таком виде:

Пример 2. Изменение порядка параметров

<?php
$format = "The %s contains %d monkeys";
printf($format, $num, $location);
?>
Появляется проблема: порядок описателей преобразования не соответствует порядку аргументов. Мы не хотим менять код, и нам нужно указать, какому аргументу соответствует тот или иной описатель преобразования.

Пример 3. Изменение порядка параметров

<?php
$format = "The %2\$s contains %1\$d monkeys";
printf($format, $num, $location);
?>
Нумерация аргументов имеет еще одно применение: она позволят вывести один и тот же аргумент несколько раз без передачи функции дополнительных параметров.

Пример 4. Изменение порядка параметров

<?php
$format = "The %2\$s contains %1\$d monkeys.
           That's a nice %2\$s full of %1\$d monkeys.";
printf($format, $num, $location);
?>

См. также описание функций printf(), sscanf(), fscanf(), vsprintf() и number_format().

Примеры

Пример 5. sprintf(): заполнение нулями

<?php
$isodate = sprintf("%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $month, $day);
?>

Пример 6. sprintf(): форматирование денежных величин

<?php
$money1 = 68.75;
$money2 = 54.35;
$money = $money1 + $money2;
// echo $money выведет "123.1";
$formatted = sprintf("%01.2f", $money);
// echo $formatted выведет "123.10"
?>

Пример 7. sprintf(): научная нотация

<?php
$number = 362525200;

echo sprintf("%.3e", $number); // выведет 3.63e+8
?>



sprintf
egingell at sisna dot com
26-Apr-2006 01:51
<?
/**
 * [string or int] vprint ( string $format [, mixed $ary [, bool $return]] )
 *
 * Closely mimics the functionality of sprintf(), printf(), vprintf(), and vsprintf().
 *
 * Replaces %[bcdeufFosxX] with each element of $ary
 *    See http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php for details on replacement types.
 *
 * If there are not enough elements in $ary (or it is left out) to satisfy $format,
 *    it will be padded to the correct length.
 *
 * Since v*printf() doesn't mind having too many elements in the array, $format will be left alone.
 *
 * If $ary is a string, it will be recast into an array.
 *
 * If $return is set to a value considered to be false (0, '', null, false, and array()),
 *    then the output will be sent to STDOUT and the strlen() of the output string will be returned;
 *    otherwise, the output string will be returned.
 *
 * It's buggy when using the argument swapping functionality, unless you do it propperly.
 *
 * May break when using modifiers (%.4e, %02s, etc), unless you do it propperly.
 **/
function vprint($format, $ary = array(), $return = true) {
   // Sanity?!
   if (!is_array($ary)) $ary = array($ary);

   // Find %n$n.
   preg_match_all('#\\%[\\d]*\\$[bcdeufFosxX]#', $format, $matches);

   // Weed out the dupes and count how many there are.
   $counts = count(array_unique($matches[0]));

   // Count the number of %n's and add it to the number of %n$n's.
   $countf = preg_match_all('#\\%[bcdeufFosxX]#', $format, $matches) + $counts;

   // Count the number of replacements.
   $counta = count($ary);

   if ($countf > $counta) {
       // Pad $ary if there's not enough elements.
       $ary = array_pad($ary, $countf, "&nbsp;");
   }

   if ($return) {
       return vsprintf($format, $ary);
   } else {
       return vprintf($format, $ary);
   }
}

?>
mauf at franzoni dot info
16-Feb-2006 07:21
The format of floating values has been previously reporting as depending on platform (linux / windows) yet I see it changes within two linux systems depending on the version:
In V4.2.2 "%3.2" displays 3 integers and two decimals (i.e. the first digit represents just the number of integer digits), on V4.4.1 the same displays (and justifies the string to) a three character string (i.e. the first digit is the total lenght of the number, including the decimal dot).

Maybe someone may better specify which version this happens from.
darkfalconIV at hotmail dot com
18-Dec-2005 12:57
henke dot andersson

You can accomplish feeding it array if you use call_user_func_array. Not exactly a `clean' option, but it does work.
jonybd
14-Nov-2005 06:02
Time ? Format

<?php

$v_Dur = "66";
$v_Dur = floor($v_Dur/60) . ":" .  number_format( fmod(($v_Dur/60)*60,60) )  ;
echo "HH:MM========" . $v_Dur;

echo "<br>";

$v_Dur = "66";
$v_Dur = floor($v_Dur/60) . ":" .  sprintf("%02s",number_format( fmod(($v_Dur/60)*60,60) )  );
echo "HH:MM========" . $v_Dur;

?>
tim dot brouckaert dot NOSPAM at gmail dot com
12-Oct-2005 05:35
If you want to center align some text using the printf or sprintf functions, you can just use the following:

function center_text($word){
   $tot_width = 30;
   $symbol = "-";
   $middle = round($tot_width/2);
   $length_word = strlen($word);
   $middle_word = round($length_word / 2);
   $last_position = $middle + $middle_word;
   $number_of_spaces = $middle - $middle_word;

   $result = sprintf("%'{$symbol}{$last_position}s", $word);
       for ($i = 0; $i < $number_of_spaces; $i++){
           $result .= "$symbol";
       }
   return $result;
}

$string = "This is some text";
print center_text($string);

off course you can modify the function to use more arguments.
webmaster at cafe-clope dot net
14-Aug-2005 09:47
trying to fix the multibyte non-compliance of sprintf, I came to that :

<?php
function mb_sprintf($format) {
   $argv = func_get_args() ;
   array_shift($argv) ;
   return mb_vsprintf($format, $argv) ;
}

function mb_vsprintf($format, $argv) {
   $newargv = array() ;
  
   preg_match_all("`\%('.+|[0 ]|)([1-9][0-9]*|)s`U", $format, $results, PREG_SET_ORDER) ;
  
   foreach($results as $result) {
       list($string_format, $filler, $size) = $result ;
       if(strlen($filler)>1)
           $filler = substr($filler, 1) ;
       while(!is_string($arg = array_shift($argv)))
           $newargv[] = $arg ;
       $pos = strpos($format, $string_format) ;
       $format = substr($format, 0, $pos)
                 . ($size ? str_repeat($filler, $size-strlen($arg)) : '')
                   . str_replace('%', '%%', $arg)
                   . substr($format, $pos+strlen($string_format))
                   ;
   }
      
   return vsprintf($format, $newargv) ;
}

?>

handle with care :
1. that function was designed mostly for utf-8. i guess it won't work with any static mb encoding.
2. my configuration sets the mbstring.func_overload configuration directive to 7, so you may wish to replace substr, strlen, etc. with mb_* equivalents.
3. since preg_* doesn't complies with mb strings, I used a '.+' in the regexp to symbolize an escaped filler character. That means, %'xy5s pattern will match, unfortunately. It is recomended to remove the '+', unless you are intending to use an mb char as filler.
4. the filler fills at left, and only at left.
5. I couldn't succeed with a preg_replace thing : the problem was to use the differents lengths of the string arguements in the same replacement, string or callback. That's why the code is much longuer than I expected.
6. The pattern wil not match any %1\$s thing... just was too complicated for me.
7. Although it has been tested, and works fine within the limits above, this is much more a draft than a end-user function. I would enjoy any improvment.

The test code below shows possibilities, and explains the problem that occures with an mb string argument in sprintf.

<?php
header("content-type:text/plain; charset=UTF-8") ;
$mb_string = "xxx" ;
echo sprintf("%010s", $mb_string), " [octet-size: ", str_sizeof($mb_string) , " ; count: ", strlen(sprintf("%010s", $mb_string)), " characters]\n" ;
echo mb_sprintf("%010s", $mb_string), " [octet-size: ", str_sizeof($mb_string) , " ; count: ", strlen(mb_sprintf("%010s", $mb_string)), " characters]\n" ;
echo "\n" ;
echo mb_sprintf("%''10s\n%'010s\n%'10s\n%10d\n%'x10s\n%010s\n% 10s\n%010s\n%'1s\n", "zero", "one", "two", 3, "four", "ve", "%s%i%x", "ve", "eight") ;
?>
david at rayninfo dot co dot uk
16-Jun-2005 11:33
Using sprintf to force leading leading zeros

foreach (range(1, 10) as $v) {echo "<br>tag_".sprintf("%02d",$v);}

displays
tag_01
tag_02
tag_03
.. etc
ian dot w dot davis at gmail dot com
30-May-2005 07:03
Just to elaborate on downright's point about different meanings for %f, it appears the behavior changed significantly as of 4.3.7, rather than just being different on different platforms. Previously, the width specifier gave the number of characters allowed BEFORE the decimal. Now, the width specifier gives the TOTAL number of characters. (This is in line with the semantics of printf() in other languages.) See bugs #28633 and #29286 for more details.
Pacogliss
02-May-2005 12:08
Just a reminder for beginners : example 6 'printf("[%10s]\n",    $s);' only works (that is, shows out the spaces) if you put the html '<pre></pre>' tags ( head-scraping time saver ;-).
christian at wenz dot org
18-Apr-2005 12:20
@ henke dot andersson at comhem dot se: Use vprintf()/vsprintf() for that.
henke dot andersson at comhem dot se
15-Apr-2005 08:07
Mind that it doesn't allow you to use a array as multiple arguments like this:
<?php
printf('%s %s',array('a','b')) ?>
downright at comcast dot net
31-Jan-2005 02:03
Just thought I'd give a heads up for anyone doing cross platform applications.

sprintf spacing is different numerically with Windows and Linux.

Linux aligned correctly:
$ol = sprintf ("%-6s|%11.2f|%11.2f|%11.2f|%11.2f|%11.2f|%11.2f|%11.2f|%11.2f\n",

Windows aligned correctly:
$ol = sprintf ("%-6s|%14.2f|%14.2f|%14.2f|%14.2f|%14.2f|%14.2f|%14.2f|%14.2f\n",

As you can see the strings are fine for spacing, however, the numbers need a difference of 3 in order to have the same amount of spaces.

I noticed this after using sprintf to format a header for a web app I was working on.  On windows it fit, however, when it came to linux it was MUCH larger than the header.
jrpozo at conclase dot net
21-Jan-2005 07:13
Be careful if you use the %f modifier to round decimal numbers as it (starting from 4.3.10) will no longer produce a float number if you set certain locales, so you can't accumulate the result. For example:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_ES');
echo(sprintf("%.2f", 13.332) + sprintf("%.2f", 14.446))

gives 27 instead of 27.78, so use %F instead.
timo at frenay dot net
10-Jan-2005 10:58
Note that the documentation is unclear about the details of the sign specifier. First of all, the character for this is "+".

Also note that the following does NOT print "+00.00" as you might expect:

<?php
   printf('%+02.2f', 0);
?>

The sign is included in the width. This can't be solved by increasing the width:

<?php
   printf('%+03.2f', 0);
?>

This will put the padding 0 before the sign.
Here is a possible solution:

<?php
   $value = 0;
   printf('%s%02.2f', ($value < 0) ? '-' : '+', abs($value));
?>
Gkeeper80
11-Aug-2004 03:58
When using sprintf with padding, it's important to note that specifying the length of your padding does not restrict the length of your output.

For example:
$var = 'test';
$output sprintf("%03s", $var);

print $output;

Produces:
test

NOT:
est

This may seem intuitive for working with numbers, but not neccesarily when working with strings.
rex
15-Jun-2004 02:47
Note, if you are just looking for something to pad out a string consider str_pad.

From testing, it seems faster and was more intuitive to use (for example, making it pad the begining or end of a string... with sprintf you would have to use negative indexes)
php at sharpdreams dot com
08-May-2004 02:13
Note that when using the argument swapping, you MUST number every argument, otherwise sprintf gets confused. This only happens if you use number arguments first, then switch to a non-numbered, and then back to a numbered one.

<?php
$sql = sprintf( "select * from %1\$s left join %2\$s on( %1\$s.id = %2\$s.midpoint ) where %1\$s.name like '%%%s%%' and %2\$s.tagname is not null", "table1", "table2", "bob" );
// Wont work:
// Sprintf will complain about not enough arguments.
$sql = sprintf( "select * from %1\$s left join %2\$s on( %1\$s.id = %2\$s.midpoint ) where %1\$s.name like '%%%3\$s%%' and %2\$s.tagname is not null", "table1", "table2", "bob" );
// Will work: note the %3\$s
?>
tobias at silverxnet dot de
16-Apr-2004 07:09
Regarding the previous posting:
I just wanted to give an explanation. This should be because the float to string / integer to string conversion (you are using a string, multiplying it with a float value what php automatically causes to convert the string to a float value). This is a general "problem" (or not), but not that hard to explain.
Where an integer or float starts with 0, in a string it does obviously with 1. So if you are using a string your value will increase by one (You started with a string, so it does not increase but contain the real result. If you start using a float value by not using '' around the value, you have to output the float value as well. This is just the PHP conversion.)

Try putting
$x = strval( $x );
after
$x = $x * 100;
and using your example again. You will see that the output will change to 13664 = 13664 because of the general string conversion. It seems that PHP is converting a float to a string by inceasing by one. By doing the same with intval instead of strval the output changes to 13663 = 13663.

! sprintf seems to behave wrong when using the conversation to an integer value and NOT doing the conversation at all. So use intval to convert to an integer value or strval to convert to a string value BEFORE using sprintf. This should be solving the problems.
kekec at kukac dot hu
29-Mar-2004 09:16
A really working one:
<?php
function cutzero($value) {
   return preg_replace("/(\.?)0+$/", "", $value);
}
?>
05-Mar-2004 10:54
both of your cut-zero functions are just way too complicated. if it's a string where only the zeros at the end should be truncated, why not use a syntax as simple as rtrim("4.7000","0") ?
martin at schwedes dot com
09-Jul-2003 03:45
decision within sprintf:

$a = "today";
$b = sprintf('This is %s', $a=='today' ? 'today':'not today');
echo $b;
// result: This is today
Rene dot Leonhardt at agritec24 dot com
16-May-2003 10:02
Your cutzero function could be faster ;-)
   return (double)$value;

But if you must have a function:
   return preg_replace('/0+$/', '', $value);
kouber at php dot net
08-May-2003 02:55
If you want to cut all the zeros off the end of a float, but not losing any sensitive information, use this:

<?
function cutzero($value) {
   return preg_replace("/(\.\d+?)0+$/", "$1", $value)*1;
}
?>

Some examples:

<?
cutzero("4.7600");    // returns 4.76
cutzero("4.7604")      // returns 4.7604
cutzero("4.7000");    // returns 4.7
cutzero("4.0000");    // returns 4
?>
info at nospam dot webtip dot dk
18-Feb-2003 05:06
If you want to format a phonenumber with spaces, use chunk_split() which splits a string into smaller chunks. It's much simpler than using sprintf.

$phone = "12345678";

chunk_split ($phone, 2);

will return 12 34 56 78
moritz dot geselle at invision-team dot de
02-Dec-2002 02:52
a little note to the argument swapping examples which took me a while to get:
if you use single quotes for the format string (like you should do, since there aren't any variable conversions to do as long as you don't need any special chars), the given examples won't work because of the backslash before the $ (needs to be escaped in double quoted strings - but not in single quoted!)

so this:

$format = "The %2\$s contains %1\$d monkeys";
printf($format,$num,$location);

with a single quoted format string would look like this:

$format = 'The %2$s contains %1$d monkeys';
printf($format,$num,$location);

(no escapes)

I hope that helps to avoid confusion ;)
no dot email dot address at example dot com
16-Sep-2002 06:29
Using argument swapping in sprintf() with gettext: Let's say you've written the following script:

<?php
$var = sprintf(gettext("The %2\$s contains %1\$d monkeys"), 2, "cage");
?>

Now you run xgettext in order to generate a .po file. The .po file will then look like this:

#: file.php:9
#, ycp-format
msgid "The %2\\$s contains %1\\$d monkeys"
msgstr ""

Notice how an extra backslash has been added by xgettext.

Once you've translated the string, you must remove all backslashes from the ID string as well as the translation, so the po file will look like this:

#: file.php:9
#, ycp-format
msgid "The %2$s contains %1$d monkeys"
msgstr "Der er %1$d aber i %2$s"

Now run msgfmt to generate the .mo file, restart Apache to remove the gettext cache if necessary, and you're off.
abiltcliffe at bigfoot.com
10-Sep-2002 11:01
To jrust at rustyparts.com, note that if you're using a double-quoted string and *don't* escape the dollar sign with a backslash, $s and $d will be interpreted as variable references. The backslash isn't part of the format specifier itself but you do need to include it when you write the format string (unless you use single quotes).
Andrew dot Wright at spamsux dot atnf dot csiro dot au
03-Jul-2002 02:22
An error in my last example:
$b = sprintf("%30.s", $a);
will only add enough spaces before $a to pad the spaces + strlen($a) to 30 places.

My method of centering fixed text in a 72 character width space is:

$a = "Some string here";
$lwidth = 36; // 72/2
$b = sprintf("%".($lwidth + round(strlen($a)/2)).".s", $a);
eden_zero_x at hotmail dot com
26-Jun-2002 02:05
Well I came up with this one, extremely simple. instead of writing <span class="class">hello</a>
you can write: print class('class','hello'); using sprintf
-----------------------------
function class_ ($class, $text=false)
 {
   return sprintf ("<span class=\"%s\">%s</span>",
       $class,
       ($text ? $text : $class)
   );
 }
-----------------------------
shgyn at binabakti dot or dot id
01-Jun-2002 07:57
Previously submitted sci() function to get scientific representation of a number is not working with 0 and negative numbers. So, here is the modified version:

function sci($x, $d=-1) {
   $min=($x<0)?"-":"";
   $x=abs($x); 
   $e=floor(($x!=0)?log10($x):0);
   $x*=pow(10,-$e);
   $fmt=($d>=0)?".".$d:"";
   $e=($e>=0)?"+".sprintf("%02d",$e):"-".sprintf("%02d",-$e);
   return sprintf("$min%".$fmt."fe%s",$x,$e);
}
fuchschr at surfeu dot at
20-Feb-2002 08:54
To have a string with leading zeros use this:
$string_i = sprintf("%04s",$value)

Gives you an output with leading zeros and 4 digits.
i.e.
0001
0002
...
0010
an so on
cv at corbach dot de
10-Feb-2002 07:36
To make radu.rendec@ines.ro's excellent function work on signed numbers you must change the first line to:

$e = floor(log10(abs($x)));
radu dot rendec at ines dot ro
09-Jan-2002 06:49
The 'e' format specifier is not documented. However, it seems to work, but without showing the exponential part of the number.

This is a function to get the scientific representation of a number:

function sci($x, $d=-1) {
   $e=floor(log10($x));
   $x*=pow(10,-$e);
   $fmt=($d>=0)?".".$d:"";
   $e=($e>=0)?"+".sprintf("%02d",$e):"-".sprintf("%02d",-$e);
   return sprintf("%".$fmt."fe%s",$x,$e);
}

It takes the number as the first parameter and the precision as the second. The precision is optional. The default precision for the 'f' format specifier is used if no precision is specified.
anqmb(at)yahoo.co.jp
05-Dec-2001 04:51
Watch out the mysterious rounding rule.
<?php
$a = 4.5;
$b = sprintf("%d",$a);
$c = 4.5;
$d = sprintf("%.0f",$c);
$e = 0.45;
$f = sprintf("%.1f",$e);
print ("$b,$d,$f\n");
?>

The code above prints "4,5,0.5".
(Perl version prints "4,4,0.5".)
keeper at odi dot com dot br
26-Nov-2001 09:26
Took me a while to find this out.
hope will save someones time.
IT ADD A CARACRER TO THE END OF A STRING

$x = sprintf("%'x-10s", "a");
echo $x;
target_rex at hotmail dot com
14-Apr-2001 07:20
$a = 5;
// $a is a int
echo $5;
// Outputs:"5";
// If you would like to print $a as a bin,(101) like: 00000101 (8 digits)
sprintf("%8b", $a) // Witch returns exatly 00000101 (8 digits)

// My function looked like:
  //////////////////////////////////////////
  // By DrRex - www.DrRex.dk - 15/04-2001 //
  // string bin(int dec)                  //
  //////////////////////////////////////////
  function bin($dec){
   $bin = sprintf("%8b", $dec);
   return $bin;
  }
  //////////////////////////////////////////

// Very short exampels how to use bin()

  echo "\n1. 128(10) == ".bin(128)."(2)";

  $hits = 100;
  echo "\n2. Loaded ".bin($hits)."(2) times! Bib!";

// Not very usefull, nobody understands the number, exept if small counters like this one. If it wasn't 8(2) but FFFFFF(16) digits. I would give up...

// This would output:
  1. 128(10) == 10000000(2)
  2. Loaded 01100100(2) times! Bib!

-------------------------------------------------
Greetings from Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark!
All code by DrRex
www.DrRex.dk
tjchamberlain.hotmail@com
25-Mar-2001 11:16
It is worth noting that "%5.2f" will result in a string 8 characters long (5 then the '.' then 2), not 5 characters as you might expect.
prolixmp3 at navigators dot lv
23-Mar-2001 10:55
If you are going to create a counter which uses _symbols_ before actual digits (see, f.e., SpyLog.com counters - they are filling space with "." before, so the count like 12345 looks like "........12345"), you can use the following:

$txt = "Abracadabra"; // actual string
$fit = 16; // how many digits to use
$fill = "."; // what to fill
$digits = sprintf ("%'{$fill}{$fit}s", $txt);

Paul (a.k.a. Mr.Prolix)
voudras at nospam dot swiftslayer dot org
17-Nov-2000 06:58
Little note about sprintf and its ilk.
if you attempt something like
$string = "dingy%sflem%dwombat";
$nbr = 5;
$name = "voudras";

$msg = sprintf("%d $string %s", $nbr, $name);

sprintf will complain about a lack in the number of arguments, this would be because of the %'s in the actual string. This can be a great benifit, but is also rather confusing if you dont realize this feature, and are passing questionable variables to sprintf (for, say perhaps logging). One way around this is using
ereg_replace("%","%%", $string); before
sending it off to sprintf. This is actually how i came across this as a problem - i had realized some time ago that i would have to test my $string for
%'s, but when running the %->%% replacement on a very large serialized object, my application timed out.
   My solution was to use
sprintf("%d %s %s", $nbr, $string, $name);
but, there was a reason i originally had done this the other way - i suppose i'll find out soon enough
paolini at kahuna dot sdsu dot edu
14-Apr-1999 01:12
Hey folks, don't forget to prefix a precision specifier with a period '.'!
Thus, to print a floating point number,
say $x, with two digits after the decimal point you would write:

printf( "%.2f", $x );

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