Remove text on Comment count

Question

I have the below code which will show comment count:

<?php echo comments_number();?>

It generates output like 0 Comment, 1 Comment, 2 Comments and so on.

I just want it to show 0,1,2 etc. So I have replaced the above code to:

<?php echo comments_number(0, 1 );?>

It now works fine for 0 comments and 1 Comment replacing them as 0 and 1. But If I add the Third Value as %s or %d there in the above code to show 2 comments as 2, it is showing an error that % is not valid.

What I am missing here?

Answer 1

There's is also the get_comments_number() to get only the number of comments for the post.