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Function Request - Antoni Gual - 04-10-2005
Now FB has PRINT USING and PRINT # USING implemented, perhaps it's time to fill one of the QB shortcomings, the "format to string", a function returning a string formatted by USING, a sort of C's sprintf...
Probably PRINT USING is already using an internal buffer, it would be a matter of returning that buffer instead of printing.
In QB there was a hack using FIELD and a NUL file, but in FB FIELD has a different meaning...
Function Request - VonGodric - 04-11-2005
that would be awesome!
Function Request - jdebord - 04-11-2005
Unfortunately, PRINT USING does not work in exponential format (at least in 0.12b). For instance, the following code:
Code:
x# = 1.23D-5
print using "#.##^^^^"; x#prints 1.23
It seems that the caret string is simply ignored.
I asked the question on this forum some time ago, but Victor said that this could not be corrected
