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

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Валерий Симонов wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> 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".
> However gnuplot outputs:
> sprintf(' %3.0f',1)  "001"
> sprintf(' %3.0d',1) "1" (without leading blanks).
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I cannot reproduce either of those results here.
The first one in particular makes no sense.
Could it be that you are not really using the format you show us?

 gnuplot> print sprintf("|%3.0d|",1)
 |  1|
 gnuplot>


> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Valera

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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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