From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A more sophisticated (format "%f" ...)?
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:39:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d20yvujn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5001.1434309027.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to format a float so that I get /at most/ 2 decimal digits after
> point /and/ at most 5 characters altogether. For instance,
>
> 2 -> 2
> 2.34567 -> 2.35
> 123.456 -> 123.5
> 123456 -> XXXXX (since this is too long to fit in 5 characters;
> alternatively, I can more or less safely assume that it's less than 1000)
>
> Is there anything like that in Elisp (or some library), or do I have to
> write it myself?
The later.
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2015-06-14 19:10 A more sophisticated (format "%f" ...)? Marcin Borkowski
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