the "-20" says to right pad with spaces if less than 20 characters the".30" says to truncate from the left. >From the documentation there seems to be no way to truncat from the right. This >would be an easy change in the code if you wished to do it. And I retract my statement about it being the useful part. I use this for my class names, and usually don't trim anything of importance. If you make the change to the code, make sure you submit it as a patch. I'm sure that others in future will have this problem. Cheers, Scott PS - I have to apologise for the tone of my last email - it sounded rude, and that's not what I had intended. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/01 07:09pm >>> Scott, This depends on needs. Nevertheless this I expected from no minus in the format string - right? Regards Frank-Olaf Lohmann >>> "SCOTT FARQUHAR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03.04.2001 22.37 Uhr >>> "truncated from the beginning" ie "beginning is truncated" so if you start truncating from the beginning, you will end up with only the last characters left, which IMHO is usually the most useful part. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/01 03:16am >>> Hello all, the following format string '%-20.30c' don't work as I understand that it should. If the string is longer than 30 characters the last 30 chars are selected but I expect the first 30. Am I wrong? The javadoc says '... then truncated from the beginning.' this let some space to misunderstand what is intended. Kind regards Frank-Olaf Lohmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
