From a7ec74d5b512df6ee6c3c0424ac1e262ce7b34a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Vrana <vrana@php.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:07:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] %.123e stands for 1.123 since PHP 5.2.1 (bug #40482)

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@232464 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml b/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml
index cfeb2c89ed..8ff4ac0798 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/sprintf.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.16 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.17 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.sprintf">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@
          <member>
           <literal>e</literal> - the argument is treated as scientific
           notation (e.g. 1.2e+2).
+          The precision specifier stands for the number of digits after the
+          decimal point since PHP 5.2.1. In earlier versions, it was taken as
+          number of significant digits (one less).
          </member>
          <member>
           <literal>u</literal> - the argument is treated as an
@@ -315,7 +318,7 @@ $formatted = sprintf("%01.2f", $money);
 <?php
 $number = 362525200;
 
-echo sprintf("%.3e", $number); // outputs 3.63e+8
+echo sprintf("%.3e", $number); // outputs 3.625e+8
 ?>
 ]]>
      </programlisting>