[fpc-devel] format function

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 okt 2006, at 14:22, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>> I noticed a strange behavior of the format function. I'm not sure  
>> it can be
>> considered as a bug.
>> If I use
>> format('%.3f', [-0.0001])
>> the resulting string is
>> -0.000
>> and not
>> 0.000
>> Why?
>
> Because your number is negative... The original number is taken to  
> decide
> whether it should put the - sign or not. What does delphi do ?

Not only that, but -0.000 is different from 0.000 (at least for the fpu)


Jonas