From: "paul.dlug@..." <paul.dlug@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T04:30:20+09:00
Subject: Bug in ruby printf/sprintf

I have encountered what appears to be a bug in ruby's printf/sprintf

This code:

str = "test"
printf "|%010s|", str

Generates this output:
|      test|

However in C and perl, the same code generates this output:
|000000test|

The latter output is correct according to the man pages, according to
the ruby doc for printf/sprintf the behavior should be the same.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there something I'm missing here
or is there a workaround for it if it is a bug?


Thanks,
Paul