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Re: number formatting lib.
From: |
Alex Shinn |
Subject: |
Re: number formatting lib. |
Date: |
21 Aug 2001 13:02:58 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.104 |
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Pinte <address@hidden> writes:
Stan> I am looking for number-formatting fonctions in guile...
Stan> of the style (number-format "#.##$" mynumber) which would
Stan> return a string.
You want the (ice-9 format) module. The general rule of thumb (coming
from C style printf) is that we use '~' instead of '%' and ',' instead
of '.'. So you might do:
(format #f "~4,2F" number)
There are some more examples of this in the PLEAC Guile cookbook
mentioned recently:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_guile/t1.html
--
Alex Shinn <address@hidden>