matlab中 4.2f,.sprintf(“％4.2f”,value)如何在PHP中运行？

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DevZone PHP 101,我很困惑：

echo .sprintf("%4.2f", (2 * $radius * pi()))

我找到了这个

I think that means produce a floating-point field four positions wide with two decimal places, using the value of the first succeeding parameter.

That comes from the C/C++ line of programming languages. an sprintf() takes the first parameter as a format statement. Anything in it starting with a % is a field specifier; anything else is just printable text. So if you give a format statement with all text and no specifiers, it will print exactly the way it appears. With format specifiers, it needs data to work on.

但在尝试了一些不同的价值后,我仍然没有得到它.在我看来,如果在这种情况下它的目的只是将小数限制为2个位置,我必须放置

.sprintf("%.2f", (2 * $radius * pi()))

前面的4点有什么意义？在PHP Manual中,它让我相信它确定字符的总数应该是4但是(a)不是这种情况,因为小数点使它成为5个字符,而(b)不是这种情况,因为我尝试将其更改为更大像％8.2f这样的数字并没有在两端都添加任何零.有人可以更好地解释一下.

谢谢！