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From: harry@dustbin.uk.sun.com (Harry Protoolis - Sun EHQ)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Padding floats with zeros in printf??
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Date: 6 Apr 91 13:29:23 GMT
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In article <6158@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, robert@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino) writes:
|> 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

Try printf("%06.3f\n", 1.1324);

The first part of the size specifier is a *field width*, so you
need to allow for the whole output string (ie 2 (digits left of d.p) + 1
(decimal point) + 3 (digits right of d.p) = 6).

Hope this helps,
Harry
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