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Subject:    [Rails] format question
From:       jamie () dang ! com (Jamie Orchard-Hays)
Date:       2005-01-30 19:17:45
Message-ID: 9C77BA0E-72F3-11D9-B269-000A95D17A50 () dang ! com
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Thanks for that!

Jamie

On Jan 30, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Samuel Kvarnbrink wrote:

> You can also use String#% (i.e. the modulo operator), which gives the 
> same result:
>
> <%= "%.2f" % @item.distance %>
>
> Looks cleaner (imho) when there's only one value involved, but 
> multiple values have to be put in an array, which looks a bit messy. I 
> tend to use String#% when there's only one value involved and sprintf 
> for multiple values.
>
> //samuel
>
> 2005-01-30 kl. 01.02 skrev Jamie Orchard-Hays:
>
>> Thanks, that did it. Is this the preferred syntax?
>>
>> <%= sprintf("%.2f",@item.distance) %>
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Johan S?rensen wrote:
>>
>>> sprintf("%.2f", 0.123456)
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