Re: Formatting output

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Patrick wrote:

Hi All,

Using Version 4.3.9 (Stuck with it for now).

Anyhow, I am trying to do formatted output of single digit decimals. I have a form and present you an abbreviated example for getting a month value.

<select class="inform" name="logmonth">
<option value="1">Jan</option>
<option value="2">Feb</option>
<option value="3">Mar</option>
</select>

and upon submit it runs through another php process

//variable set
$logmonth = $_POST[logmonth];

//and my attempt to format the output
fwrite($out,"%02d\n",$logmonth);

so that it will write to a file

and put a leading 0 in front of single digit months.

Example, for February the output to the file would be 02.

The fwrite doesn't seem to work.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks


That's because fwrite() doesn't accept a formatting string. You write a string; the third parameter is optional and is the number of bytes to write.

You need fprintf() instead.


fprintf doesn't seem to work for me. It stops things in its tracks and does nothing through the rest of the script beginning at that line.

//I have it as
fprintf($out,"%02d\n",$logmonth);

Is this right?

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