From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-02-18T01:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatting

Hi,

At Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:36:04 +0900,
Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk> wrote:
> > In C, people use printf to format data nicely for display.  In Java,
> > it's NumbeFormat, DateFormat, etc.
> >
> > What is the best  way to do this in Ruby?
> 
> If you want sprintf like formatting then % might be useful e.g. (lifting
> from Programming Ruby's Built In Classes section)

Also printf, sprintf and IO#printf.

And Time#strftime for date.

-- 
Nobu Nakada