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  From: Andrew Halliday <andrew@recalldesign.com>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:44:25 +1030

Re: PHP Question...

number_format($string,2);

First param: number to format
Sec param: number of decimals
May need to do an atoi first?

AndrewH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Reid" <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: PHP Question...


> Hello PHP Programmers,
>
> I'm writing some stuff in PHP that gets a value from a SQL Database and
> prints it out.
>
> The value is a a filesize in bytes (ie, "1024").
>
> I've divided it by 1024 twice (ie, "$string = $string / 1024 ; $string =
> $string / 1024 ;") and it now looks something like:
>
> 47.1231231123
>
> This is obviously 47.12MB. What I want to do is to trim the string down
> to get only the last two decimal places.
>
> Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
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