Texas Instruments TI-89

Appendix A: System Routines — Strings
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Description: The following formats are unique to AMS.
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%r %R — Double argument is converted to decimal notation of the form
[-]d.ddde[+-]ddd using engineering notation.
%y %Y — Double argument is converted according to the %f or the %e
format depending on the system MODE settings.
The following modifiers are scanned in the order shown.
' ' — Prefix positive values with a space.
+ — Prefix positive values with a +.
- — Left justify value in field.
| — Center value in field.
# — Use alternate forms as follows.
%o — Prefix with 0.
%x %X — Prefix with 0x and 0X respectively.
%e %E %f — Force a decimal point.
%g %G — Force decimal point and leave trailing zeros.
0 — Pad with leading zeros.
AMS specific modifiers.
^ — Do not print leading 0 for values between -1 and 1, use
LF_NEGATIVE for negation instead of minus sign '-', use
LF_EXPONENT for exponent character instead of 'e' or 'E', do not
print leading + on positive exponent values, force decimal point in
all float strings.
z — Zap trailing blanks.
Precision supported in strings
%X.Ys — X-character wide field, print at most Y characters (even if the
string is longer). If X or Y is a *, the value is taken from the
next argument.
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