Question

I have a question about using sprintf in php.

An equation returns a value of 0.6 but I always want it to display as three decimal places like so:

.600

As the data changes, it may result in something like: 0.567443 but I’d like it to display as:

.567

Always three decimal places, and never with a leading zero. I tried using sprintf('%00.3f',$percentage) but that didn’t work. It always places the leading zero.

Answer 1

One might call this cheating:

sprintf('.%0-3.3s', $percentage * 1000);

But it works.