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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Is this how formats are supposed to work?
Message-ID: <1990Jan19.005258.21639@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 19 Jan 90 00:52:58 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.185922.20098@eci386.uucp> <6798@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <17678@rpp386.cactus.org>
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As quoted from <17678@rpp386.cactus.org> by jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II):
+---------------
| Perhaps a function "picture" that takes two arguments - the first a
| number, either floating point or integer, and a picture string.  The
| function formats the number according to the picture string.
+---------------

I already have PD code to do this, if someone would like a starting point.

++Brandon
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