But it covers Ordinals, Cardinals, Percentages, Ranges, Date, Time, etc. is the most robust, but it is a programming language in itself, right down to conditional blocks and offsets, and lots of repetition to format the text portion correctly. It sounds like he wants a method to specify formatting. (many examples removed due to triggering error: "your comment looks like ascii art") In other words, I was looking for a "universal" way of formatting numbers and failed to find any kind of standard online.ĭo Slashdot readers know of such a thing or should I create my own? Some examples can be: write it as a 3-digit number suffixed by SI prefixes when the numbers are too big or too small, display a timestamp as HH:MM string, or just the day of week, eventually cut to the first three characters, do the same with a timestamp in milliseconds, or nanoseconds, display a nice string out of a number of seconds to express a duration ("3h 12mn 17s"), pad the number with spaces so that all numbers are aligned (left or right), force a fixed number of digits after the decimal point, etc. I needed a small string the user could write to describe exactly what they want to do with their number. There's just one problem: "I had to come up with a way for users to format a number." You can put them next to your screen and have your metrics displayed there.!" The ultimate goal is send the data to an HTML interface "to find some use for the old iPads/tablets/laptops we all have lying around.
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