sprintf does not fill with "0"?!

[Oliver-3]

Hello,


please look here:





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>
> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
[1] "  1" "  2" "  3" "  4" "  5"
>
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There should be a leading "0" isntead of space-chars?!



I use  R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)


Ciao,
  Oliver

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[Earl F. Glynn]

"Oliver Bandel" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
> [1] "  1" "  2" "  3" "  4" "  5"

Would this be OK as an alternative?

> sprintf("%3.3d", 1:5)
[1] "001" "002" "003" "004" "005"

efg

Earl F. Glynn
Scientific Programmer
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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[barry rowlingson]

2008/9/15 Oliver Bandel <[hidden email]>:

>> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
> [1] "  1" "  2" "  3" "  4" "  5"
>>
> =================================================================
>
> There should be a leading "0" isntead of space-chars?!
>

 In R, sprintf is a wrapper for the C printf functions, and if you
read the C man page it says this about the 0 prefix:

0
The value should be zero padded. For d, i, o, u, x, X, a, A, e, E, f,
F, g, and G conversions, the converted value is padded on the left
with zeros rather than blanks. If the 0 and - flags both appear, the 0
flag is ignored. For other conversions, the behavior is undefined.

Interestingly R seems to pad with spaces (like yours), but my cygwin C
version pads with zeroes. Such is the nature of undefined behaviour!

Barry

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[Adaikalavan Ramasamy-2]

Try

   sprintf("%03.0f", 1:5)

   formatC(1:5, width=3, flag="0")

Regards, Adai



Oliver Bandel wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> please look here:
>
>
>
>
>
> =================================================================
>> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
> [1] "  1" "  2" "  3" "  4" "  5"
> =================================================================
>
> There should be a leading "0" isntead of space-chars?!
>
>
>
> I use  R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
>
>
> Ciao,
>   Oliver
>
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[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Oliver Bandel
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> please look here:
>
>
>
>
>
> =================================================================
>>
>> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
> [1] "  1" "  2" "  3" "  4" "  5"
>>
> =================================================================
>
> There should be a leading "0" isntead of space-chars?!

No, the '0' flag only applies to numeric types (e.g. 'd'), and you
specify a string.  Instead, you want to do something like:

> sprintf("%03d", 1:5)
[1] "001" "002" "003" "004" "005"

/Henrik

>
>
>
> I use  R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
>
>
> Ciao,
>  Oliver
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[Oliver-3]

Zitat von Henrik Bengtsson <[hidden email]>:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Oliver Bandel
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > please look here:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > =================================================================
> >>
> >> sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
> > [1] "  1" "  2" "  3" "  4" "  5"
> >>
> > =================================================================
> >
> > There should be a leading "0" isntead of space-chars?!
>
> No, the '0' flag only applies to numeric types (e.g. 'd'), and you
> specify a string.  Instead, you want to do something like:
>
> > sprintf("%03d", 1:5)
> [1] "001" "002" "003" "004" "005"

[...]


Oh, well... ok.

Thanks to all. :)

Ciao,
   Oliver

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[Dilara Ally]

after sprintf
 h<-sprintf("%03s", as.character(1:5))
fill the spaces with
 gsub("\\s","0",h)