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* What is the difference between "%s" and "%d"?
@ 2015-07-31 21:17 Marcin Borkowski
  2015-08-01  7:24 ` Tassilo Horn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2015-07-31 21:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list

Hi all,

consider two forms:

(format "%d" int)

and

(format "%s" int)

Assuming that `int' is bound to an integer, is there any difference
between the two?

TIA,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



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* Re: What is the difference between "%s" and "%d"?
  2015-07-31 21:17 What is the difference between "%s" and "%d"? Marcin Borkowski
@ 2015-08-01  7:24 ` Tassilo Horn
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Tassilo Horn @ 2015-08-01  7:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marcin Borkowski; +Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> consider two forms:
>
> (format "%d" int)
>
> and
>
> (format "%s" int)
>
> Assuming that `int' is bound to an integer, is there any difference
> between the two?

No, but for a number-%-sequence there are many flags available to
customize how it is printed.

,----[ C-h f format RET ]
| The argument used for %d, %o, %x, %e, %f, %g or %c must be a number.
| Use %% to put a single % into the output.
| 
| A %-sequence may contain optional flag, width, and precision
| specifiers, as follows:
| 
|   %<flags><width><precision>character
| 
| where flags is [+ #-0]+, width is [0-9]+, and precision is .[0-9]+
`----

Bye,
Tassilo



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