Hi,all my guile1.9.14 output like this: when I studied the format procedure following the mannual: ====== mannual start===== ~f If overflowchar and width are both given and if the output would exceed width, then that many overflowchars are printed instead of the value. (format #t "~5,,,'xf" 12345) -| 12345 (format #t "~4,,,'xf" 12345) -| xxxx <- bug ====== mannual end===== but i got like this: ====== repl start===== scheme@(guile-user)> (format #f "~5,,,'xf" 12345) "xxxxx" scheme@(guile-user)> (format #f "~6,,,'xf" 12345) "12345." ====== repl end=====