[Rlib-users] Format Strings

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey All,

If you know anything about i18n or english is not your first language
please read this:

A little while ago Everton noticed a problem w/ rlib formatting
numbers.. right now rlib can "commatize" a number.. but this doesn't
work out too well for other number systems or currency's

So... I went digging around and in C I found strfmon

       #include <monetary.h>
       ssize_t strfmon(char *s, size_t max, const char *format,
       ...);

Which looks like it will do the trick.... along w/ a rlib_set_locale

so I think I'm going to have to change around the structure of format=""

Currently you can do a "%s" or "%d" or.. all the fun date stuff
depending on weather your data is STRING, DATE or NUMBER

However.. the syntax for strfmon is kinda screwey....

sample format string: [%^=*#6n]

so for numbers I think I'm going to do this:

%d and %m

and only one can be in the format string.. %d for numbers.. and %m for
money

and %m would have %m and %!m where the ! means omit the currency
symbol... and %^m would me omit the grouping symbol.. ofcourse you could
do: %!^m

Sound good to everyone?

- Bob