Re: Getting the decimal points to line up!

Richard E Maine wrote:
<meek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In addition - the 1.xxxx numbers don't have 6 decimal places

P and G have a "strange" interaction.

There are two simple rules for using the P edit descriptor.

1) If you are using old working code that uses a P, don't
mess with it.

2) If you are writing new code, don't use a P.

Follow those rules and you can't go wrong.

Dick Hendrickson

To elaborate slightly; the P descriptor is a holdover from the good
old days when input (and machine readable output) was an 80 column
punched card. "Wasting" a column for a mere "." was a sin. A person
who truly understood the P descriptor could save thousands of columns,
cards, microseconds, or trees. Other people wrote programs that didn't
work or thet unnecessarily killed trees.
.

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