pad character not working properly

[wkechel]

The alternate pad character specification does not work properly:

sprintf("%'#10s",'monkey')
--> "####monkey"
sprintf("%'a10s",'monkey')
"%'a10s"
I think the reason is the regexp. Since # is in the part of the pre-precision/padding spec, it works, but no characters other than [-+'#0 ]* are accepted

[alexei]

I'm not sure I understand your comment. If you mean to suggest that sprintf("%'a10s",'monkey') returns "%'a10s", I'm afraid I can't reproduce this behavior.

[wkechel]

Hi, I am expecting

sprintf("%'a10s",'monkey') --> 'aaaamonkey', i.e. the string shall be
emitted 10 chars wide and padded with a's

On 01.05.14 17:17, Alexandru Mărășteanu wrote:

I'm not sure I understand your comment. If you mean to suggest that
sprintf("%'a10s",'monkey') returns "%'a10s", I'm afraid I can't
reproduce this behavior.

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[alexei]

But it does return "aaaamonkey"

[wkechel]

But only for %s, Not for numerical values

Wolfgang Kechel
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Am 02.05.2014 um 07:32 schrieb "Alexandru Mărășteanu" <notifications@github.commailto:notifications@github.com>:

But it does return "aaaamonkey"

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[alexei]

Please tell me what version are you using, and please show me the code.