Re: padding left-justified string fields

From: Joe Smith (Joe.Smith_at_inwap.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:55:31 GMT

Dave wrote:

> Okay, that's all good. But my predicament is that I want something like
> "10" padded to "010" AND I want it left-justified... the manpage for printf
> states "If the 0 and - flags both appear, the 0 flag is ignored."

It appears you did not recognize the significance of this line:

     .number "precision": digits after decimal point for
                floating-point, max length for string, minimum length
                for integer

That line explains what you should expect from
        printf "%10.3\n",99;

                -Joe