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Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf?

From Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
Newsgroups comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf?
Date 2012-05-28 23:32 +0200
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On 28.05.2012 17:09, Валерий Симонов wrote:

> I want to specify labels for the plots using sprintf.
> According to http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/sprintf/
> sprintf(' %3.0f',1) should print "001"
> sprintf(' %3.0d',1) should print "  1".

That reference (or your understanding of it) is incorrect, as far as the 
behaviour of the 'f' format specifier is concerned.

> However gnuplot outputs:
> sprintf(' %3.0f',1)  "001"

No, it doesn't.

> sprintf(' %3.0d',1) "1" (without leading blanks).

> Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

What issue, in particular?

How come your subject line is about blanks in printing _floats_, but 
then you only try syntax that you think you should print leading blanks 
in _integers_?

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How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? Валерий Симонов <valerasimonov@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 08:09 -0700
  Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-05-28 11:16 -0700
    Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? Валерий Симонов <valerasimonov@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 19:33 -0700
      Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-05-28 20:48 -0700
        Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? valerasimonov@gmail.com - 2012-05-29 06:18 -0700
    Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? valerasimonov@gmail.com - 2012-05-28 20:19 -0700
  Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros   using sprintf? Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-05-28 23:32 +0200
    Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? valerasimonov@gmail.com - 2012-05-28 19:56 -0700
      Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros   using sprintf? Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-05-29 18:33 +0200
        Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? valerasimonov@gmail.com - 2012-05-31 05:43 -0700
  Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? Christoph Bersch <usenet@bersch.net> - 2012-05-29 09:51 +0200
    Re: How to print floats with leading blanks instead of leading zeros using sprintf? valerasimonov@gmail.com - 2012-05-29 06:19 -0700

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