From: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Floating-point formatting string
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:42:03 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D268EB.6080501@ig.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mz3hy0ze.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
Chong Yidong wrote:
> Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br> writes:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> It seems that there is a problem with floating-point formatting string
>> in Emacs 22.
>>
>> Type
>> M-: (format "%03.3f" 1.2) RET
>> ==> "1.200"
>>
>> Shouldn't it be "001.200"?
>>
>
> The Elisp manual says, of the width specification:
>
> If the printed representation of the object contains fewer
> characters than this width, then it is padded.
>
> In this case, the 03 refers to the width of the entire string "1.200",
> which is 5 > 3.
>
> For example,
>
> M-: (format "%08.3f" 1.2)
> ==> 0001.200
>
Ok, thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 1:17 Floating-point formatting string Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-02-14 1:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-14 1:40 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-02-14 1:36 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-14 1:42 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre [this message]
2007-02-14 16:26 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-14 16:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-14 16:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
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