in reply to Hex floating point format specifier?

I've got this recollection of there being a hex floating format specifier for s/printf; which I've never had a use for; but now I have, I cannot find any reference to it.

Did I imagine it? Is it a recollection from some other language?

perlfunc from 5.22 documents %a as "hexadecimal floating point", and %A as "like %a, but using upper-case letters". 5.18 does not know about %a and %A.

Update: Listed as new feature in perldelta from 5.22.0.

Alexander

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Re^2: Hex floating point format specifier?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 17, 2015 at 19:36 UTC

    Thanks afoken (and anonymonk). I'd begun to think I'd imagined it. I didn't think to look there (5.22) because it seems like a much older memory.

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