Formating decimal numbers with commas (1,000.00)

[jicman]

Stewart Gordon Wrote:

> On 14/09/2010 21:00, jicman wrote:
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I have been trying, for more than an hour, to get information on how
> > to format a number (2342.23) to $2,342.23.
> 
> Just wondering, where have you been searching for this information?

Google gave me a bunch of hits, but none where useful.  I can go back and get them for you, but all they have is the man pages or documentation on *print*.  PHP does have nice little functions (format_number, format_currency, etc.) that provide the results I want.  I was hoping that doFormat would allow somekind of formatting such as:

doFormat("$%,.2f",1234.45);

and return $1,234,45. or something like that.  Adding the $ at the beginning is easy. .-)  Or, 

doFormat("$10,.2f",1234.45);

would return

$    1,234.56

where only 10 characters are allowed from the left side of the period back.

Anyway, you get what I am saying.

josé