printf does not operate, either.

<?
$A = -1;
printf( "%02d:", $A );
?>

reslt:[-1]

4.1.2 or 4.3.1:

reslt:[-1:]

No, it doesn't look like an environmental problem. sprintf() and printf() indeed append an extra NUL character for negative numbers:

% LC_ALL=C php -r '
printf( "%03d\n", -1 );
' | xxd
0000000: 2d30 3100 0a                             -01..

It happens also with "%02f" format.

Similarly, neither vsprintf nor vprintf also operates.

<?
$A = -1;

$Array[0] = $A;
echo bin2hex( vsprintf( "%02d:", $Array ) );

vprintf( "%02d:", $Array );
?>

reslt:[2d31003a]
reslt:[-1]

4.1.2 or 4.3.1:

reslt:[2d313a]
reslt:[-1:]

Thank you very much for Reply.

Since this function group is likely to be used quite extensively,
the influence range seems to be large.

A cause was not found although many things were investigated individually.

I'm sorry that reporting is only always possible.

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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