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From: robert@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Padding floats with zeros in printf??
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Date: 5 Apr 91 21:41:20 GMT
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background: I'm running SunOS 4.1 on a SPARC using the Sun
	    C compiler.

I'm doing something like so:

	printf("%02.3f\n",1.1324);

and I'm getting this:

	1.132

I want something like

	01.132

The book "C A Reference Manual" by Steele & Harbison say that the
following should work:
	printf("%02.3f\n",1.1324); OR
	printf("%#02.3f\n",1.1324); OR
	printf("%02.3g\n",1.1324); OR
	printf("%#02.3g\n",1.1324);

Now, I've tried all of these (including the "hammer") and nothing seems
to work.  If the book says it should work then the compiler is not doing
it's job correctly.  Does anyone know how to get around this using this
compiler???

Please e-mail directly.

thanks in advance


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