I'll try to fix that long-standing deficiency when I port to 7.01. In the meantime, use %2.2d (it does support width, just not the 0 flag).
Henry Rich On 11/1/2011 5:20 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > I'd also like to see width specifiers in printf/sprintf, a la C. That would > let printf do "%02d", i.e. zero-pad an integer until it fills two > characters. I know it's not critical, but I'd like to see a more complete > interface for these functions. > > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > www.yellosoft.us > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, David Mitchell<[email protected]>wrote: > >> You would have to put printf.ijs there yourself. As you found, it is not >> installed there in J7. >> >> I would suggest temporarily copying it yourself from the J6 directory to a >> J7 >> directory, perhaps your J7 user directory. >> >> As I recall the beta test and release schedule of J7, the reasons for the >> release of a 'unfinished' J7 were several: >> >> 1) The support philosophy of J7 was radically different than prior J >> versions, >> in my opinion. J7 is now essentially open source and depends on user >> contributions for future enhancements and even conversions of some of the >> previously 'standard' scripts. >> >> 2) The file structure of J7 was significantly different than J6. As far >> as I >> can see, the goal was to simplify the 'core' J as much as possible and >> move as >> many 'non-core' scripts as possible to the addons directories. >> >> 3) The elimination of the long time favorite 'wd' interface in J7 meant >> that >> many support scripts would have to be radically rewritten to work with J7. >> While printf does not use 'wd', printf may have gotten caught up in the >> general >> direction of J7 and left as an exercise for the user. >> >> See more discussion about this topic in the historical logs of the Beta >> Forum. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> David Mitchell >> >> >> On 11/1/2011 13:23, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: >>> I ls'd the j64-701/system/main/ directory and found no printf.ijs file. >>> >>> Why would JSoftware release a new v7 version of J without first upgrading >>> the addons from v6? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Andrew Pennebaker >>> www.yellosoft.us >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:54 AM, David Mitchell<[email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Andrew, >>>> >>>> I don't have access to J on a Mac, so I cannot guarantee that the >> process >>>> that >>>> worked for me will work for you. But, I suspect that it will. >>>> >>>> What I recommend is that you install both J6.02 and J7.01 on your Mac. >>>> There >>>> are elements of J6.02 that are not currently included in J7.01. >>>> >>>> Some of the elements that are not included in J7.01 from J6.02 are >> mostly >>>> or >>>> wholly compatible with J7.01, but these elements have currently not been >>>> migrated to J7.01. >>>> >>>> The printf script is one of those J6.02 elements that does not appear to >>>> have >>>> been migrated to J7.01. >>>> >>>> I have both J6.02 and J7.01 installed on Windows 7_64. After I saw your >>>> question >>>> concerning printf, I looked in J6.02 using "Find in Files" and found >> that >>>> the >>>> printf verbs were defined in j602/system/main/printf.ijs. >>>> >>>> I looked at the definitions of the printf verbs to see if I could see >> any >>>> reason >>>> why they would not work on J7.01 or on a Mac. I did not see any obvious >>>> reason >>>> that they were likely to fail on J7.01 or a Mac. I also noticed that >> the >>>> printf.ijs script had a built-in test that validated many of the verbs >> and >>>> formats supported by printf.ijs. I ran the test on J7.01 and the test >>>> reported >>>> that all of the tests ran fine. >>>> >>>> Based on that result and my own casual testing of printf verbs, I >> believe >>>> that, >>>> if you install J6.02, you will likely be able to load printf.ijs from >> J6.02 >>>> while running J7.01 on your Mac and that will define the printf verbs >> and >>>> provide you the printf functionality. >>>> >>>> At some point, some one may decide that the J6.02 printf.ijs script >> should >>>> be >>>> included in J7.01. Because of the decision to move many of the J6.02 >>>> included >>>> .ijs scripts from the main J system directories to the addons >> directories, >>>> it >>>> will probably wind up in addons/format or addons/general/misc directory. >>>> >>>> I must admit I had not bumped into Mitchell and Webb before. One of >> these >>>> days, >>>> I should start a web site (if it doesn't already exist) where all of us >>>> David >>>> Mitchell's could gather. Until the advent of the web, I had thought >> that >>>> I had >>>> a reasonably unique name. Since the web, I have discovered that there >> are >>>> hundreds, if not thousands of David Mitchell's just in NY State. >>>> >>>> All the best, >>>> -- >>>> David Mitchell >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/31/2011 14:02, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: >>>>> David: Are you saying that J701 x64 for Mac currently supports printf >> by >>>>> default, or that printf must be compiled, or something else? >>>>> >>>>> What's your opinion of Mitchell and Webb? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Andrew Pennebaker >>>>> www.yellosoft.us >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:02 AM, David Mitchell<[email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The J6 version of printf (system/main/printf.ijs) seems to work fine >>>> with >>>>>> J7. >>>>>> >>>>>> I enabled the built-in test cases and ran the printf tests on J7_64 >> and >>>>>> there >>>>>> were no errors reported. >>>>>> >>>>>> NB. modify script to run tests. >>>>>> NB. Test lines (change ^:0 to ^:1 to run test) >>>>>> load 'c:/users/me/j602/system/main/printf.ijs' >>>>>> Error count: 0 >>>>>> >>>>>> All the best, >>>>>> -- >>>>>> David Mitchell >>>>>> >>>>>> On 10/31/2011 1:32, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: >>>>>>> $ jconsole >>>>>>> load 'printf' >>>>>>> not found: /Users/andrew/Desktop/printf >>>>>>> |file name error: script >>>>>>> | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Specs: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - J701 x64 >>>>>>> - Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Andrew Pennebaker >>>>>>> www.yellosoft.us >>>>>>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>>>>> >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>>>> >>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
