Formatting Column of Times

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Tue Sep 6 18:54:04 EDT 2005


Stephen Barncard wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> is there a way to use the format function to make timings line up 
> right-justified? -- i.e. pad with leading zeros and/or spaces? Or do I 
> have to roll my own? I've been faking this for years but if there's a 
> function...
>
What are you starting with ?

If it's tHours and tMins, then you'd do

format("%2d:%02d", tHours, tMins)    -- " 3:55"
or
format("%02d:%02d", tHours, tMins)   -- "03:05"


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