From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2007-05-07T10:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Inverse scanf: finding format specifers of existing fields

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
>>       assert_equal( '%8.7f', '.0001170'.to_number_format )
> 
> Not sure how this one worked, it fails for me.  As a matter of fact:
> irb(main):001:0> '%8.7f' % 0.0001170
> => "0.0001170"
> 
> And I haven't been able to find an sprintf format string which
> supresses a leading zero on a float.

You're correct; as you wrote, I wasn't testing round-trip.

Thanks,
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Bil Kleb
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