From: Tomas Brixi <brixi@...>
Date: 2001-10-31T22:49:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23947] Re: strange string formating

Today it's a _BAD_ day ;-)
I have solved it meanwhile

Sorry for flooding mailist with such a stupid question

Tom

ts wrote:

>>>>>>"T" == Tomas Brixi <brixi@unicode.cz> writes:
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>T> TK1000000104 0055.25
>                1234567
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>T> out = format( "%13s%04.2f", parts[0], part[1].to_f )
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> With "%04.2f" 4 give the length of the field, in your example you probably
> want a field length of 7, i.e.
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>pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -e 'puts format("%04.2f", 55.25)'
>55.25
>pigeon% 
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>pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -e 'puts format("%07.2f", 55.25)'
>0055.25
>pigeon% 
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>Guy Decoux
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