On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:39, Micha Nelissen wrote: > Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:44, Micha Nelissen wrote: > >> How can I zero-pad using Format ? > > > > RTFM. :-) > > > > SysUtils.Format ('%.4D', Some_Int); > > Sounds like I found a case where 'C' is more intuitive than pascal > ;-).
As if format strings were intuitive at all. :-) I'd call "Zero_Pad (Some_Int, 4)" definitely more intuitive. > Seriously, isn't "Format" an imitation of C's printf ? Apart from the fact, that you can get run time type checking? Yeah, I suppose so. > At least they > are very similar, but on this detail (and maybe some others as well) > they are different. Well, let's assume it's due to Delphi-compatibility. Probably Borland decided to do it differently just for the fun of it. ;-) Vinzent. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel