Get a symbol value

NumberFormatter::getSymbol

numfmt_get_symbol

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

NumberFormatter::getSymbol -- numfmt_get_symbol — Get a symbol value

Description

Object oriented style

string NumberFormatter::getSymbol ( int $attr )

Procedural style

string numfmt_get_symbol ( NumberFormatter $fmt , int $attr )

Get a symbol associated with the formatter. The formatter uses symbols to represent the special locale-dependent characters in a number, for example the percent sign. This API is not supported for rule-based formatters.

Parameters

fmt: NumberFormatter object.
attr: Symbol specifier, one of the format symbol constants.

Return Values

The symbol string or FALSE on error.

Examples

Example #1 numfmt_get_symbol() example


<?php
$fmt = numfmt_create( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::DECIMAL );
echo "Sep: ".numfmt_get_symbol($fmt, NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."\n";
echo numfmt_format($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000)."\n";
numfmt_set_symbol($fmt, NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL, "*");
echo "Sep: ".numfmt_get_symbol($fmt, NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."\n";
echo numfmt_format($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000)."\n";
?>

Example #2 OO example


<?php
$fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::DECIMAL );
echo "Sep: ".$fmt->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."\n";
echo $fmt->format(1234567.891234567890000)."\n";
$fmt->setSymbol(NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL, "*");
echo "Sep: ".$fmt->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."\n";
echo $fmt->format(1234567.891234567890000)."\n";
?>

The above example will output: