Re: Floating-point formatting string

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 2/14/07, Vinicius Jose Latorre <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Type
> >    M-: (format "%03.3f" 1.2) RET
> >    ==> "1.200"
> >
> > Shouldn't it be "001.200"?
>
> > From format's docstring:
>
>  The basic structure of a %-sequence is
>    % <flags> <width> <precision> character
>  where flags is [- #0]+, width is [0-9]+, and precision is .[0-9]+
>
> You're saying "flag = 0, width = 3, precision = 3". That overflows the
> width = 3.
>
> Try
>
>  (format "%07.3f" 1.2) => "001.200"

Ok, width of ALL string representation.

I thought it was the integer part width only.


Thanks,


Vinicius