Hmmm...well I'll give you the interest on your $0.02. :-) I'm pretty sure that the latter question will prove more useful if placed in the regex section than in the data formatting section. But you are probably right on the first question -- stuff having to do with printf, sprintf, and format could all go in this area.

Honestly though, data formatting is itself a bit redundant. If someone has a question like "How do I format a page that I'm printing to a web browser?", does that go under data formatting or CGI? Or both? Actually, (just thinking out loud here), Q&A should have been structured so that each question has one or more keywords/subjects, and then the categories are based on those keywords (with questions appearing under multiple categories)...some of the existing questions ,and also the existing answers, are really cross-category examples...

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In reply to Data formatting section in Q&A by neshura
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