[erlang-questions] Formatting integers with io_lib

Bryan Robinson [ICG-MKTS] brobinson@REDACTED
Thu Oct 28 15:54:37 CEST 2010


Ulf,

Thank you, I plugged that in and it worked.

Mazen,

Thank you, that was the documentation I was looking at, but I missed the
"~F.P.PadModC" part.  When I opened your link there it was right before
me!  Thanks.

- Bryan

On 10/28/10 03:39, Mazen Harake wrote:
> Relevant documentation:
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/io.html#format-2
> 
> On 27/10/2010 21:41, Ulf Wiger wrote:
>> 1>  {H,M,S} = time().
>> {21,37,1}
>> 2>  io:fwrite("~2.2.0w.~2.2.0w.~2.2.0w~n",[H,M,S]).
>> 21.37.01
>>
>> BR,
>> Ulf W
>>
>> On 27 Oct 2010, at 21:32, Bryan Robinson [ICG-MKTS] wrote:
>>
>>> I may have missed or misunderstood something in the io_lib and io
>>> library documentation, but is there a way to use io_lib:format() to
>>> insert leading zero characters on small integers?  For example, in the
>>> Erlang shell:
>>>
>>> {_,Time} = calendar:local_time().
>>> {H,M,S} = Time.
>>> Msg = io_lib:format("~w:~w:~w", [H,M,S]").
>>> io_format("~s", Msg).
>>>
>>> I get "15:2:9".  I would like to get back "15:02:09", and of course when
>>> the integer is two digits I would not like the leading zero.
>>>
>>> Is there a similar way to do this like with the C stdlib and the %0n
>>> where n=2 formatter?
>>>
>>> printf("%02d:%02d:%02d", h, m, t);
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any pointers or tips.  Thank you!
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> - Bryan
>>>
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