From: Tiberius <jromano@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T04:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in ruby printf/sprintf

The equivalent C program under RedHat Linux 3 update 6 x86_64 produces
|     test|

Also, I ran your ruby code in ruby 1.8.4 (2006-12-24) and it also
produces the same results as the C code does.



paul.dlug@gmail.com wrote:
> 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