The manual for sprintf

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php

gives a nice introduction to the idea of the different formatting
options. But, the reader is referred to the examples to see the
different ways that you can format a number. Is there a better resource
than this for formatting codes in sprintf ? I think that the
annotations are great, but you shouldn't have to rely on these
afterthoughts for your information (I didn't see how I could limit the
trailing zeroes until I got to the annotations).

Something tells me that for C programmers, formatting output like this
is old hat, but for those of us who are just getting our feet wet in
programming, there should be a more exhaustive reference as to what can
be done... is there any such reference?

Thanks,
Erik





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Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
pricee@hhbrown.com