I'm working with a database that has the limit that the only (numeric) datatype it can store is a double. What I want to do is pick the number for a certain row and put it into an HTTP request. The problem revolves around that I cannot know if this number should or should not have decimals. For example, if the double is an ID, I cannot ...
I'm using NSLog() to print some tabular data consisting of an NSString and an associated integer. Assume I know the length of the longest word. Is there a way using format strings to get this kind of column alignment: word:tree rank:5 word:frog rank:3 word:house rank:2 word:peppercorn rank:2 word:swor...
How do you escape the % sign when using printf in C? printf("hello\%"); /* not like this */ ...
Hi , I recently came across this line in a code - fprintf(logfile," |-IP Version : %dn",(unsigned int)iph->version); Is "%dn" here a format string ? If so , what does it signify ? ...
I want to print out a variable for type size_t in c but it appears that size_t is aliased to different variable types on different architextures. For example on one machine (64-bit) the following code does not throw any warmings: size_t size = 1; printf("the size is %ld", size); but on my other machine (32_bit) the above code produces...
For the following query: with member testVal as 0.1234 member testNormal as testVal member testPrepend as testVal, format_string="%##.00" member testMidpend as testVal, format_string="##%.00" member testAppend as testVal, format_string="##.00%" select { testNormal, testPrepend, testMidpend, testAppend} on axis (0) from [SomeRandomPlace...
In my application the user can select how a date is displayed. Most of the standard datetime format strings can be selected. My problem now is that the average user doesnt understand the difference between "m" and "D". What I want to do is change this so that, as excel does, rather than showing the format string, I show how an arbitrary ...
In C, I have format strings, something like: char *msg = "wlll you marry me" fprintf(stderr, "%s, %s?", name, msg); Now, can I do something similar in lua with format strings? I.e. I want something functionally equivalent to: name .. ", " .. msg .. "?" but not so ugly, in lua. Okay, so I can do string.format("%s, %s?", name, msg),...
I have an integer in an Access database, which is being displayed in ASP.NET. The integer represents the position achieved by a competitor in a sporting event (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), and I'd like to display it with a standard suffix like 'st', 'nd', 'rd' as appropriate, rather than just a naked number. An important limitation is that thi...
What is the mask for "percentage", in a WinForms application (VB.net)? ...
KdPrint(( "Unknown IoControlCode %#x\n", io_stack->Parameters.DeviceIoControl.IoControlCode )); It's weird. What does sharp mean? ...
This is from some code I'm looking at... I think it's some sort of special format string that loads the file at the path into a binary string assigned to data, but I'm not sure as when I try to replicate it all I get is a standard string. Or is it actually a standard string and I'm reading too much into it? ...
printf conversion specifications are % followed by flags, width, precision, length modifier and conversion specifier. Is there practical limit to size of a conversion specification? I.e. %s is 2 chars long, while %08.2f is 6 chars long. My question is, what is the length of the maximal single specification in a format string that can be...
What does %.8Ff format specifier in printf do?What does F mean? ...