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Posted by Asean Novari   USA  (82 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 04 Nov 2004 06:55 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Thu 04 Nov 2004 07:50 PM (UTC) by Asean Novari

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Ok.. i am running the SWR 1 Fuss that i got from this site..
Its running on windows, compiled with cygwin..

I was wondering if there is a way to code in something that
will remove a "space" character from a line whenever one of
the values in that like gets one digit bigger and likewise
add a "space" when the number gets smaller

Spacecraft/Vehicles/Members/Funds
93         75       387     10983 <-- This is how i want it
93          75        387       10983 <-- This is how it is

I know i can make it the way i want it by manually going in an
and removing a space.. but i would like it to keep my general
form without me having to tamper with it every time the number
gets another digit added ot removed from it..

I searched the forums for a topic that covered this but could
not find any. If this is a repeat topic please accept my
apologies and bear with me or refer a link to the older topic

Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks


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Posted by Greven   Canada  (835 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Thu 04 Nov 2004 09:14 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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What you can do is check the man page for sprintf ( I think ), this will give you instructions on how to use printf formating, to assign a definite amount of space that a number will take up, so that regardless of how many numbers(79 or 123), it will format them out to always show 10 characters wide
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Posted by Asean Novari   USA  (82 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Fri 05 Nov 2004 12:37 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Couldn't find what you were talking about.. i even did a
search on sprintf and looked over all the posts.. whatever i
found in them i didnt understand.. an elaboration would be
appreciated..


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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,867 posts)  [Biography] bio   Moderator
Date Reply #3 on Fri 05 Nov 2004 12:45 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Yeah, it's in the man page for sprintf.

   Format of the format string

Under that section of the manual.
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Posted by Greven   Canada  (835 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #4 on Fri 05 Nov 2004 01:23 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Fri 05 Nov 2004 01:26 AM (UTC) by Greven

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What you need is something like this:
ch_printf(ch, "%10d %10d %10d %10d\n\r" ships, vehicles, clan->members, clan->funsd);
Something like that, I'm at work, but if you still can't figure it out, I will give you an exact example out of stock SWR in a few hours from this post.

The man page will give you how and why this works, though I am terrible with sprintf from memory, so I may be incorrect, but it should be close to that. You can change the 10 to however many spaces you want it to take up.
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Posted by Greven   Canada  (835 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #5 on Fri 05 Nov 2004 03:39 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Actually, looking at the stock code in do_clans, this is what shows up:
        ch_printf( ch, "  &WDivision             Leaders             Spacecraft/Vehicles/Members/Funds\n\r");
        ch_printf( ch, "  &O%-20s %-10s %-10s %-10s %-2d %-2d %-3d %ld\n\r",
                  "Main", clan->leader, clan->number1, clan->number2, clan->spacecraft, clan->vehicles, clan->members, clan->funds );
 The only issue that I can see is that the leaders, number1, and number2, when only 20 spaces are included.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,772 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #6 on Sat 06 Nov 2004 08:19 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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The %-2d needs to be bigger, eg. %-3d.

That is allowing for a 2-digit number. The - changes from left to right justification, or vice-versa.
- Nick Gammon

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