On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:12 AM, glts <676c7...@gmail.com> wrote: > fmthours i.24 > ┌────┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬────┬────┬────┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬────┬────┐ > │12am│1am│2am│3am│4am│5am│6am│7am│8am│9am│10am│11am│12pm│1pm│2pm│3pm│4pm│5pm│6pm│7pm│8pm│9pm│10pm│11pm│ > └────┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴────┴────┴────┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴────┴────┘ > > Newbie here. With some effort I managed to squeeze the verb 'fmthours' > into a single line, but the result wasn't too pretty. The edge cases > (12am/pm) caused me the most trouble. How would a virtuos@ do it?
Thank you all very much for your answers. Only now do I realise that my original problem description was rather vague. So, for the record, what 'fmthours' achieves is pretty printing integers in the interval [0, 23] as hours of the 12-hour clock. schedule=: fmthours 8 10 12 19 22 23 0 schedule ┌───┬────┬────┬───┬────┬────┬────┐ │8am│10am│12pm│7pm│10pm│11pm│12am│ └───┴────┴────┴───┴────┴────┴────┘ -- David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
