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From: bob@cald80.UUCP (bob)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: output formatting in C
Message-ID: <1227@cald80.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 22:24:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: cald80.1227
Posted: Mon Jul 20 22:24:35 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 03:18:07 EDT
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Reply-To: bob@cald80.UUCP (bob)
Organization: Calspan Advanced Technology Center
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Keywords: print using, column alignment

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In article <1085@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>
>   A friend of mine is writing a program which will, among other things,
>output some columnar data.  He wishes to have the columns alingned so that
>the decimal points of each number are aligned.  

	OK, this is silly but I'll bite (or is that byte?).  This
simply accomplished with the '[f]printf' statement thusly:

	printf("%8.3f\n", fnum);
		or
	fprintf(fd, "%8.3f\n", fnum);

which is the rough equivalent of:

	PRINT USING ####.###, FNUM

This may be oversimplified for the case that you are using but I don't
have any further details to go on.

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