From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bike shifting - output decimal in percent Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 09:05:21 +0200 Message-ID: <86blzysz4e.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86mujjrzw0.fsf@zoho.eu> <3b5af744-8dc6-42d0-9273-a8030e2b3443@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="114284"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 19 09:05:50 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSFtF-000TSY-Q3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 09:05:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSFtE-0001zD-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 03:05:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSFt0-0001yv-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 03:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSFt0-0001Ly-1C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 03:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34774 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSFsy-0001Iv-3z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 03:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSFst-000T2g-JK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 09:05:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:19t7Th9QG+ATz6QpFQ5eyq/kISk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120529 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> How do I output a decimal float digit0 <= >> x <= 1 into percent? ("A percentage?" >> Correct English?) [...] >> >> But I wonder if/why-not there is/isn't >> a built-in way to do it? > > Use function `format'. See `C-h f format' and > (elisp) `Formatting Strings'. You mean (info "(elisp) Formatting Strings") ? > (format "%2.2g%%" (* 100.0 foo)) => "31%" Great, thanks a lot :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal