Trying to format a string to a fixed length 1

[jcarrott]

I have a quantity field that I need toend up with in a field with a length of 14 places. the field is of a format 14.4 so I tried using

$vQty = sprintf("%014.4f", $data[7]);

The error I got was because I am not allowed to have a decimal point in the result.

How can I get the resuly 00000000010000 for a quantity of 1 rather than 0000000001.0000?

 

[rharsh]

If the field is already in the format of 14.4, you could use the int function to only return the integer portion of the floating point number.

If you just need to remove the last 4 digits, you could use the substr function or a regex to return all but the last 4 digits.

There are other ways, but those should give you a place to start.

 

[prex1]

The only way I see is

$vQty = sprintf("%014d", $data[7]*10000);

where 'd' is for unsigned numbers. You should also check that your numbers are not too large for the multiplication.

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