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Questions - zero-padding

Pad float with zeros according to maximum length in list

I have a list: ls = [1.0, 2.11, 3.981329, -15.11] I want to add zeros to decimal places of each element so that all values have the same length as the value that has maximum length. So the output sho...
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Programmer

python

list

zero-padding

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Here's an alternative solution. Note that the nums will be strings: ls = [1.0, 2.11, 3.981329, -15.11] dps = lambda x: len(x) - x.index(".") - 1 max_dp = max([dps(str(i)) for i in ls]) ne...
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Emmanuel

Left zero padded format numbers

I want to format 4-digit numbers with left padded zeros and 5-digit numbers with no leading zeros so when e.g: I insert 124 it is formatted to 0124. 30 is formatted to 0030. When number >9999 then...
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komplRX

java

format

zero-padding

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Answers: 1

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Try %04d instead: 0 indicates what you're using to pad; 4 is the width of the number (you had 5 before); d represents an integer (incl. byte, short, int, long, bigint). String.format("%04d"...
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happy songs

How can I pad a series of hyphen-separated numbers each to two digits?

I am fairly new to PowerShell programming, so need help with set of strings I have as described below: "14-2-1-1" "14-2-1-1-1" "14-2-1-1-10" I want to pad zero to each n...
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Mandeep

string

powershell

pad

zero-padding

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Instead of trying to manually keep track of how many elements and inspect each value, you can simply split on -, padleft, then join back together with - "14-2-1-1","14-2-1-1-1",&qu...
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Doug Maurer

How to make `bc` output a desired number of base-2 binary digits

This outputs 101110 echo "obase=2; 46" | bc How can I make it output 8 digits, like this? : 00101110 I learned the above usage of bc here: Bash shell Decimal to Binary base 2 conversion See...
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Gabriel Staples

bash

bc

zero-padding

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The simple solution is to use the output of bc within a command substitution providing input to printf using the "%08d" conversion specifier, e.g. $ printf "%08d\n" $(echo "ob...
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