[Newbies] Number formatting printf/sprintf for Squeak?

[Hernán Morales Durand]

Hello David,
  You can start reading about supporting the geometric segmentation
algorithm (i.e. indentation alphabets) for structuring text documents.
Cheers.

Hernán

2009/2/17 David Finlayson <david.p.finlayson at gmail.com>:
> There are also some interesting examples of string formatting in the
> DateAndTime class used for printing hours minutes and seconds onto a
> stream. That's where I picked up how Squeak does it (painful I might
> add).
>
> printf (or Java's String.format) are nice. Python has some nice ideas
> here too. Maybe some Smalltalk guru could shed some light on the one
> true way to do this?
>
> David
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Sorensen <sorens at surfy.net> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks everybody for your replies.  I'll look at SBE and Seaside 2.9 as well
>> for further examples.
>>
>>> For left-justifying text, I'm a bit surprised that you'd want to do this.
>>> Typically, you'd make the text left
>>> or right justified in whatever GUI element that value ends up in, rather
>>> than padding it with spaces.
>>
>> You're right.  I'd like to do more than simply left-justify:
>>
>>   "%6.2f"      34.56     "space-padded right justified"
>>   "%-6.2f"  34.56        "space-padded left justified"
>>   "%02d"    05            "zero padded left justified"
>>
>> etc
>>
>> Your examples though gave me a good place to start.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
>> Sorensen wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a printf/sprintf-like package for formatting text  for Squeak?
>>>
>>> If not, how do Squeakers go about formatting currency amounts or left
>>> justifying text within a field?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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