If the number is negative there needs to be room for the minus sign... On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:25:02AM -0000, Ben Trewern wrote: > >From the docs: > > "FM suppresses leading zeroes and trailing blanks that would otherwise be > added to make the output of a pattern be fixed-width" > > It works now but for one I don't understand why the space is added in the > firs place and two I think the docs don't tell the whole story ie leading > blanks and I assume trailing zeros if applicable.
-- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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