From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-11-12T03:49:28+09:00
Subject: Re: sprintf bug (?)

Peter Szinek wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am wondering if I have just found a bug in (s)printf...
> 
> According to the PickAxe, table "sprintf flag characters":
> 
> ================= snip ==================================
> 
> 0 (zero)  	all  	Pad with zeros, not spaces.
> 
> ================= snip ==================================
> 
> so I think this call
> 
> irb(main):053:0> sprintf("%05s", 123)
> => "  123"
> 
> should correctly result in
> 
> "00123"
> 
> or I am getting something wrong?

I think ruby follows the C standard, which says zero padding only 
applies to numeric formats.

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