stringformat 0 padding on both sides of floating point number

[kylomas]

Hi,

I am trying to format duration output as:

nnnn.nnnn

with 0 padding using stringformat.

I cannot get digits before the decimal to o pad. Ive tried the following

stringformat("%04.4f",round(timerdiff($time)/1000,4))
stringformat("%4.4f",round(timerdiff($time)/1000,4))
stringformat("%-4.4f",round(timerdiff($time)/1000,4))
stringformat("%-04.4f",round(timerdiff($time)/1000,4))

These all yield either n.nnnn or an error.

Perhaps one of you "C" gurus who understand "sprintf" know whether or not this can be done with stringformat, and how.

Alternatively, I'll put in code to determine the length of the lefthand part of the number and concatenate the correct number of zeros, a kludgy solution, at best.

Thanks,

kylomas

[AZJIO]

$time = 4.45

MsgBox(0, 'Yes?', stringformat("%0.4i.%.4i", $time, ($time - Int($time))*10000))

[kylomas]

AZJIO,

Thanks, was working on splitting the exponent from the mantissa and formatting each seperately. Your example does this nicely. I finally wound up with this

func c_timer_output($str,$time)
 local $ttmp = round(timerdiff($time)/1000,4)
 local $a10 = stringsplit($ttmp,".")
 consolewrite("!> " & stringformat("%-50s", $str) & " = " & stringformat("%0.4i.%.4i",$a10[1],$a10[2]) & " seconds" & @lf)
endfunc

Even though it works, it seems like a goofy solution. Perhaps I'm being naive!

kylomas

[ProgAndy]

You have to count all characters for the minimum length. 4 digits + 1 decimal mark + 4 digits = 9 chars

stringformat("%09.4f",round(timerdiff($time)/1000,4))

[kylomas]

ProgAndy,

Thanks, I suspected it was something I was missing!!

kylomas