From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Gawk 3.0.3  print error?
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 21:41:07 +0200
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Giacomo Cau wrote:
> 
> >gawk "BEGIN{OFMT=\"%012.0f\";print OFMT,1,sprintf(OFMT,1)}"
> 
> %012.0f 1 000000000001

What seems to be the problem, exactly?  I don't see anything wrong with this
result; that's what I'd expect "%012.0f" to produce.  The leading zero says
to pad with zeros, and .0 says no fractional digits.