Noob question: How to do number formatting?

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I searched the documentation and everything and can't find a simple
method for number formatting. Any links?

thanks for your help.

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Ben Johnson wrote:

I searched the documentation and everything and can't find a simple method for number formatting. Any links?

thanks for your help.

Use ri to look up printf, sprintf, and String#%

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Do you know how C formatting works? The Ruby printf methods work the same way. The details are given with:
ri Kernel#sprintf

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On Aug 21, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Ben Johnson wrote:

I searched the documentation and everything and can't find a simple
method for number formatting. Any links?

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Hi,

* Ben Johnson wrote (2006-08-22 06:27):

I searched the documentation and everything and can't find a simple
method for number formatting. Any links?

Something like this?

    http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_m_kernel.html#sprintf

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