Re^4: Can sprintf suppress leading zero for float

It's safer to place the modifier before the final letter (e.g. %.3Zf) or to pick a different letter (e.g. %.3F). That way, it doesn't restrict the strings into which the pattern can be placed.

I wonder what C# does.

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Re^5: Can sprintf suppress leading zero for float < 1? by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 16, 2012 at 14:02 UTC
ikegami: Yeah, if I were going to preprocess the string, I would do it that way. But I opted to postprocess it instead. Since I rarely have a numeric field immediately adjacent to an alpha field, it didn't seem like much of a restriction. Also, I thought that preprocessing the string and argument list might get a bit messy if there were many field definitions. ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.	[reply]

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Re^5: Can sprintf suppress leading zero for float < 1?
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 16, 2012 at 14:02 UTC

ikegami:

Yeah, if I were going to preprocess the string, I would do it that way. But I opted to postprocess it instead. Since I rarely have a numeric field immediately adjacent to an alpha field, it didn't seem like much of a restriction. Also, I thought that preprocessing the string and argument list might get a bit messy if there were many field definitions.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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