From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25557@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:45:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b896eed-9041-83d3-bd46-cde7e534223e@live.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a8abyzqs.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 2017-01-28 10:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 25557-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:04:33 -0500
>>
>>>> On a related note, is there a way to get a shortest representation of a number? Something like %g, but without exponents.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't understand the question. How can you represent an
>>> arbitrary number without exponents at all, except by %f?
>>
>> I'd like something like this (with a hypothetical %q):
>>
>> (format "%.3q" 3) ⇒ "3"
>> (format "%.3q" 3.00) ⇒ "3"
>> (format "%.3q" 3.30) ⇒ "3.3"
>> (format "%.3q" 3.05) ⇒ "3.05"
>> (format "%.3q" 3.352) ⇒ "3.35"
>> (format "%.3q" 3100000) ⇒ "3100000"
>>
>> This is in fact just the same as 'g', except for the last entry (%g produces "3.1e+06"). Is this achievable?
>
> Yes, if you use "%.7g". In general, use "%.Ng" if you want up to N
> digits in the printed representation.
>
> Does that answer your question?
Almost: though this works for the last example, it breaks the one before the last (I'm looking for a format specifier that would constrain the number of decimals, not the number of digits, so that (format "%.3q" 30.352) would produce "30.35" — maybe all these examples should have had %.2q instead of %.3q, in fact).
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-27 22:05 bug#25557: Documentation of format doesn't describe "g" accurately Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 15:04 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 15:45 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2017-01-28 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 16:18 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 19:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 20:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-28 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 20:45 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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