<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:11 PM Luis Henrique via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">At <a href="https://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-devel/2021-February/043569.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-devel/2021-February/043569.html</a> I saw the syntax "value: x: y".<br>
> str(value:6:3, valuestr);<br>
What is the name of this and where is it documented?<br>
I did tests and saw that Y determines the width of the precision part, but I can't see any effect of X.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess one can call it optional formatting specifiers. See documentation: <a href="https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/str.html">https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/str.html</a> </div></div></div>