Format to Without Space Between Number and Unit

[Yamaeda]

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@alexderjuengere wrote:

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@Yamaeda wrote:

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Attempt 2 🙂

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never surrender ; )

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"Never give up, never surrender!"

"It's inside out. And it exploded."

"By Grabthars hammer, you shall be avenged." 

I bet many of you easily pick those references, and if not, you're missing out on a great movie in your lifes. 🙂

[Yamaeda]

Attempt 3, combine with some other/earlier ideas:

[Basjong53]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Attempt 3, combine with some other/earlier ideas:

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If anyone else is confused by the {} in the format string, from the format into string help file:

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Nice solution!

[Yamaeda]

In Python you can apparently add ! or !! to the format specifier to handle space before suffix. In this case it would have simply been %p! as format. Maybe that should be a suggestion.

[BertMcMahan]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

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@alexderjuengere wrote:

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@Yamaeda wrote:

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Attempt 2 🙂

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never surrender ; )

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"Never give up, never surrender!"

"It's inside out. And it exploded."

"By Grabthars hammer, you shall be avenged." 

I bet many of you easily pick those references, and if not, you're missing out on a great movie in your lifes. 🙂

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You lost me.

(it's another quote, lol)

[PhillipDBrooks]

Maybe a malleable VI would be useful?

I'm limping along on 2016, so can't test anything out 😞

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@GerdW wrote:

Hi Yamaeda,

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@Yamaeda wrote:
When i went to school we often wrote it without space. It seems it's standardized to a space nowadays.

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"Nowadays" is atleast 30 years old (when I wrote my diploma thesis)!

That's the German regulation, I already linked to the NIST rules in message #2.

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It is also described in CMOS, which is "reference" for me:

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

In Python you can apparently add ! or !! to the format specifier to handle space before suffix. In this case it would have simply been %p! as format. Maybe that should be a suggestion.

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Same in Rust — can be easily done with si module or si_scale crate with almost a single line of code.

[Yamaeda]

Yeah, i'm getting old. I guess the magical "usually" carries a heavy load in that sentence. 🙂

I remember some style guide saying "space when writing on a machine, no space when writing with a pen". But that was ~30 years ago.