Will do. Unfortunately the spec documents are so complicated I cant tell for *sure* whats supposed to happen.\ Or maybe its my caveman brain :)
---------------------------------------- David A. Lee Senior Principal Software Engineer Epocrates, Inc. d...@epocrates.com 812-482-5224 -----Original Message----- From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of John Snelson Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 3:46 PM To: General MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] fn:format-number with fixed trailing 0's padded Yes, me too. I think there's a bug in there somewhere. Can you get in contact with support about this? John On 2 Sep 2011, at 20:04, Lee, David wrote: > Try this in ML ... I dont get it but I'm sure its burried in the rules > somewhere > > > fn:format-number(43.70242, "#,##0.00") > > I get > > 43.7 > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > David A. Lee > Senior Principal Software Engineer > Epocrates, Inc. > d...@epocrates.com > 812-482-5224 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com > [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of John Snelson > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 2:51 PM > To: general@developer.marklogic.com > Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] fn:format-number with fixed trailing 0's > padded > > My understanding of the spec is that the picture string "#,##0.00" > should give you a minimum of two digits after the decimal point. It > certainly works that way for me in MarkLogic. > > fn:format-number(5.6, "#,##0.00") > > gives > > "5.60" > > Are you using a recent version of 4.2? > > John > > On 02/09/11 18:31, Lee, David wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out fn:format-number >> >> The specs are about the most confusing thing I've ever read >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-30/#syntax-of-picture-string >> >> Could someone give me an example that would format a decimal with a >> fixed number of 0 padded fraction digits ? >> >> For example >> >> format with 2 0 digits padded >> >> 1 as 1.00 >> >> 1.4 as 1.40 >> >> 1.414 as 1.41 >> >> 0 as 0.00 >> >> 100.1 as 100.10 >> >> I've tried both >> >> "#,##0.##" >> >> and >> >> "#,##0.00" >> >> and both seem to omit the trailing 0 >> >> Any suggestions ? >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> >> David A. Lee >> >> Senior Principal Software Engineer >> >> Epocrates, Inc. >> >> d...@epocrates.com <mailto:d...@epocrates.com> >> >> 812-482-5224 >> > > > -- > John Snelson, Senior Engineer http://twitter.com/jpcs > MarkLogic Corporation http://www.marklogic.com > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@developer.marklogic.com > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@developer.marklogic.com > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
