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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 18:21:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 18:21:19 +0000 |
| commit | 6662521eef19f96de52b97fb5fa07a85826679ee (patch) | |
| tree | 3445a5d5bc8939118a426b52b520e63e7fe5035c /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 7fdcfa2fc732bf742f6e1c2b723ab188bf8dc010 (diff) | |
| download | perl-6662521eef19f96de52b97fb5fa07a85826679ee.tar.gz | |
integrate cfgperl changes#6242..6249 into mainline
p4raw-link: @6249 on //depot/cfgperl: cab27d238e930b8cddb5b1fb3260355f913b86a6
p4raw-link: @6242 on //depot/cfgperl: 1e72252ad7b8e23d1a1142285b8aa82986bd2491
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6359
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6358 'copy in'
ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL (@5953..) t/lib/peek.t
(@6086..) t/lib/filefunc.t t/lib/filespec.t (@6230..)
pod/perlintern.pod (@6237..) pod/perlapi.pod utf8.c (@6242..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6249 'copy in' lib/IPC/Open3.pm
(@5937..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6248 'copy in' pod/perlfunc.pod
(@6206..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6247 'ignore' lib/File/Spec.pm
(@6230..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6244 'copy in' gv.c (@6217..)
'merge in' sv.c (@6196..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6243 'copy in' pp_proto.h
(@6237..) 'ignore' embedvar.h perlapi.h (@6237..) 'merge in'
embed.h objXSUB.h (@6237..) embed.pl perlapi.c proto.h
(@6242..)
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index ce08134532..6b4e971f97 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4379,9 +4379,18 @@ L</chomp>, and L</join>.) =item sprintf FORMAT, LIST -Returns a string formatted by the usual C<printf> conventions of the -C library function C<sprintf>. See L<sprintf(3)> or L<printf(3)> -on your system for an explanation of the general principles. +Returns a string formatted by the usual C<printf> conventions of the C +library function C<sprintf>. See below for more details +and see L<sprintf(3)> or L<printf(3)> on your system for an explanation of +the general principles. + +For example: + + # Format number with up to 8 leading zeroes + $result = sprintf("%08d", $number); + + # Round number to 3 digits after decimal point + $rounded = sprintf("%.3f", $number); Perl does its own C<sprintf> formatting--it emulates the C function C<sprintf>, but it doesn't use it (except for floating-point |