If the number is negative there needs to be room for the minus sign...
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:25:02AM -0000, Ben Trewern wrote:
> >From the docs:
>
> "FM suppresses leading zeroes and trailing blanks that would otherwise be
> added to make the output of a pattern be fixed-width"
>
> It works now but for one I don't understand why the space is added in the
> firs place and two I think the docs don't tell the whole story ie leading
> blanks and I assume trailing zeros if applicable.
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