Re: text in programming languages, Unicode in strings

Scott Lurndal wrote:

"Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:

MitchAlsup1 wrote:

 

And I miss some equivalent of picture clauses in C every time I see,
including in this NG, a number consisting of a string of say 8 or 9
or more digits without the every three digit separator character,
which sure makes reading such numbers easier.  :-(

 
printf has supported that capability for decades.
 
$ LANG=en_US.utf8 printf "%'10.2f\n" $(( 1540.0 * 179.47 + (7928 +
401 - 535)  * 67.61 + 2295 * 173.35  + 3230 * 191.00 + 192 * 750.15 +
150 * 509.85 + 254 * 6> 2,505,496.61

If the mechanisms that you and Anton present were so easily available,
why do I see so many instances of "non separated" outputs?  Are they
too recent, or are programmers too lazy, or do they believe that users
don't care (i.e. that I am in a minority)?

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