From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2009-08-05T10:06:12+09:00
Subject: Re: zero placeholder exponential sprintf?

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Bil Kleb<Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a request for 0.112345e+02 instead of,
>
>  % ruby -e "puts '%.6e' % [ 1.123450e+2 ]"
>  1.123450e+02
>
> Possible?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Bil Kleb
> http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov
>
>

I may be missing what you are after, but....
Does it need to be sprintf?

require 'bigdecimal'
p BigDecimal.new(1.12345e+2.to_s).to_s  #=> "0.112345E3"


Harry

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