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From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug #31893] ice-9 format produces control characters and non-printable characters for numeric output
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sjxt6tle.fsf@email.unc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101219-121435.sv20118.81757@savannah.gnu.org> (Andy Wingo's message of "Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:14:35 +0000")

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Andy Wingo <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> writes:

> Actually I think this problem is less exciting.

This is exactly what I was hoping for!

> Your format was:
>
> ~9,8,,,0g
>
> So you are specifying a width of 9 chars, 8 mantissa digits, and an
> "overflow character" of zero, which also has the effect of making the
> width a hard limit. Also note that your overflow char is
> (integer->char 0), not # -- the nul byte, indeed a control character.

This makes sense.  Using just "~f " fixed some of the output, but not
all.  I will work more with the format strings.

Thanks,

Joel

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Joel J. Adamson	-- http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-20  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-15 20:58 [bug #31893] ice-9 format produces control characters and non-printable characters for numeric output Joel J. Adamson
2010-12-19 11:51 ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-19 12:14   ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-20  2:55     ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
2010-12-20 17:26       ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-21  2:36         ` Joel J. Adamson

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