[log4perl-devel] precision in format specifiers

[Kevin G. <ke...@go...>]

While we're on the subbject of PatternLayout, is there any reason we're 
not including precision (aka max field width) in the sprintf format 
specifiers? We can do
	%20m
but not
	%20.20m

It's supported	in log4j 
(http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/PatternLayout.html)

and the change is below, shall I put it in?



--- old/PatternLayout.pm        Thu Nov  7 10:13:11 2002
+++ lib/Log/Log4perl/Layout/PatternLayout.pm   Thu Nov  7 10:10:33 2002
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
      }

      # Parse the format
-    $format =~ s/%(-*\d*)
+    $format =~ s/%(-?\d*(?:\.\d+)?)
                         ([cCdfFIlLmMnprtxX%])
                         (?:{(.*?)})*/
                         rep($self, $1, $2, $3);

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