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Re: Floating-point formatting string
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Stuart D. Herring |
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Re: Floating-point formatting string |
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Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:26:57 -0800 (PST) |
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> In this case, the 03 refers to the width of the entire string "1.200",
which is 5 > 3.
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> For example,
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> M-: (format "%08.3f" 1.2)
> ==> 0001.200
That doesn't quite explain Vinicius' other examples; in particular,
M-: (format "% 3.3f" 1.2)
==> " 1.200"
which has been padded even though it's longer than 3 characters without
the space.
Davis
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