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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Is this how formats are supposed to work?
Message-ID: <6798@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 16 Jan 90 02:06:17 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.185922.20098@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Jan15.185922.20098@eci386.uucp> clewis@eci386 (Chris Lewis) writes:
: Is there any way to set the display format for numbers in format lines?

No.

: Assigning "%.2g" to $# (after selecting the handling associated with the
: stream) doesn't appear to affect anything and things are printed with
: more than 2 decimal places.

Maybe it should work this way--I haven't thought about it.  Or maybe we
need numeric "pictures".

For the time being, just slap an sprintf around the variable name.

Larry