printf problem
Author
Hi, I''m having real problems getting printf to work the way I want to.
I want to display for example 4.24f as
'' 4.24'' in the console, preserving the spacing
but all of:
printf ( "% 4.2f", 4.24f );
and
printf ("%4.2f", 4.24f );
and
printf ("%04.2f", 4.2f );
All display the same result which is:
''4.24''
The width seems to be ignored, as well as the custom spacing I want to put in.
Does anyone understand why, any help will be appreciated.
Author
lol that was just an example
I actually want to format a floating point number, so it always appears the same length on screen
so lets say:
float f = 1.3f;
then I hoped that:
printf( "% 5.2f", f );
would display:
'' 1.30''
( with 2 spaces )
and not
''1.30''
and if f = 11.3f;
then I want it to display
'' 11.30''
( with one space )
and not
''11.30''
hmm hope that explains it a bit better.
I actually want to format a floating point number, so it always appears the same length on screen
so lets say:
float f = 1.3f;
then I hoped that:
printf( "% 5.2f", f );
would display:
'' 1.30''
( with 2 spaces )
and not
''1.30''
and if f = 11.3f;
then I want it to display
'' 11.30''
( with one space )
and not
''11.30''
hmm hope that explains it a bit better.
consider using sprintf and c-string.
I forget the format, so I can't post an example.
edit:
Are you kidding? This works just fine:
Output:
Remember, the format is: % [zero/space] [minimum width ] . [precision] [type]
[edited by - alnite on April 15, 2004 7:34:10 PM]
I forget the format, so I can't post an example.
edit:
Are you kidding? This works just fine:
float ee = 5.203f;
printf( "% 10.2f\n", ee );
printf( "% 10.2f\n", 500.2f );
printf( "% 10.2f\n", 23.21f );
printf( "% 10.2f\n", 90.593f );
Output:
5.20 500.20 23.21 90.59 Remember, the format is: % [zero/space] [minimum width ] . [precision] [type]
[edited by - alnite on April 15, 2004 7:34:10 PM]
It looks like you don''t quite understand how printf works.
You''re putting an actual number after the % which you don''t need. If you want to display '' 4.24f'' (with a leading space, if I''m correct), then you use:
float f = 4.24f;
printf( " %.2f", f );
Notice that the printf doesn''t actually have the number 4.24 in it; it only has ".2" indicating that it should print out only the first two digits after the decimal point. And you put the percent right next to it; don''t put spaces in between. Put spaces before and after. It won''t interfere.
You''re putting an actual number after the % which you don''t need. If you want to display '' 4.24f'' (with a leading space, if I''m correct), then you use:
float f = 4.24f;
printf( " %.2f", f );
Notice that the printf doesn''t actually have the number 4.24 in it; it only has ".2" indicating that it should print out only the first two digits after the decimal point. And you put the percent right next to it; don''t put spaces in between. Put spaces before and after. It won''t interfere.
quote:Original post by PromitActually, I think what he wants to do is to right align the number.
It looks like you don''t quite understand how printf works.
You''re putting an actual number after the % which you don''t need. If you want to display '' 4.24f'' (with a leading space, if I''m correct), then you use:
float f = 4.24f;
printf( " %.2f", f );
Notice that the printf doesn''t actually have the number 4.24 in it; it only has ".2" indicating that it should print out only the first two digits after the decimal point. And you put the percent right next to it; don''t put spaces in between. Put spaces before and after. It won''t interfere.
Author
Thanks for your help alnite.
Kind of weird actually, when I take the number up from 4.2 to 5.2 or above it actually seems to work fine.
However I wasn''t really concentrating last night and the only problem is that the number 0 seems to be aligned as
''0.00''
instead of
'' 0.00''
as I want it when I put the number 4.2 in.
Anyway it seems to be fixed for what I want to do.
Kind of weird actually, when I take the number up from 4.2 to 5.2 or above it actually seems to work fine.
However I wasn''t really concentrating last night and the only problem is that the number 0 seems to be aligned as
''0.00''
instead of
'' 0.00''
as I want it when I put the number 4.2 in.
Anyway it seems to be fixed for what I want to do.
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