st: Re: format of a referenced macro

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

If you are just diplaying a value, you need to put the formatting and value 
outside the quotes:

di "Here is " %9.2f  `MIR2' "."

If you want to format the actual macro, then you could do that in the macro 
definition using the :di macro extended function

local MIR2: di %9.2f stats[4,1]

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
"Adam Seth Litwin" <aslitwin@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> I am referencing a macro, but I can't figure out how to set the formatting
> upon referencing.
>
> Here's what I mean...
>
> local M1R2 = stats[4,1]
> file write filename "Here is `M1R2'."
>
>
> This writes a line to a file that looks like this:
> Here is .2835322214434233.
>
> How would I get it to look like:
> Here is 0.28.
>
> I just don't know where to put the %9.2f.
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