Questions tagged [format]
It may refer to text formatting, content format, file format, document file format, etc.
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How can I pretty-print JSON in a shell script?
Is there a (Unix) shell script to format JSON in human-readable form?
Basically, I want it to transform the following:
{ "foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum" }
... ...
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How can I print literal curly-brace characters in a string and also use .format on it?
x = " \{ Hello \} {0} "
print(x.format(42))
gives me : Key Error: Hello\\
I want to print the output: {Hello} 42
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.NET String.Format() to add commas in thousands place for a number
I want to add a comma in the thousands place for a number.
Would String.Format() be the correct path to take? What format would I use?
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How do I display a decimal value to 2 decimal places?
When displaying the value of a decimal currently with .ToString(), it's accurate to like 15 decimal places, and since I'm using it to represent dollars and cents, I only want the output to be 2 ...
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Formatting a number with leading zeros in PHP [duplicate]
I have a variable which contains the value 1234567.
I would like it to contain exactly 8 digits, i.e. 01234567.
Is there a PHP function for that?
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How to nicely format floating numbers to string without unnecessary decimal 0's
A 64-bit double can represent integer +/- 253 exactly.
Given this fact, I choose to use a double type as a single type for all my types, since my largest integer is an unsigned 32-bit number.
But now ...
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What is this date format? 2011-08-12T20:17:46.384Z
I have the following date: 2011-08-12T20:17:46.384Z. What format is this? I'm trying to parse it with Java 1.4 via DateFormat.getDateInstance().parse(dateStr) and I'm getting
java.text....
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Android TextView Justify Text
How do you get the text of a TextView to be Justified (with text flush on the left- and right- hand sides)?
I found a possible solution here, but it does not work (even if you change vertical-center ...
user130076
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How do you display JavaScript datetime in 12 hour AM/PM format?
How do you display a JavaScript datetime object in the 12 hour format (AM/PM)?
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What's the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?
ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 seem to be two formats that are common the web. Should I use one over the other? Is one just an extension? Do I really need to care that bad?
Brig Lamoreaux
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Format timedelta to string
I'm having trouble formatting a datetime.timedelta object.
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I have a list of objects and one of the members of the class of the object is a timedelta object that shows ...
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Convert one date format into another in PHP
Is there a simple way to convert one date format into another date format in PHP?
I have this:
$old_date = date('y-m-d-h-i-s'); // works
$middle = strtotime($old_date); // ...
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How to format date and time in Android?
How to format correctly according to the device configuration date and time when having a year, month, day, hour and minute?
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How to format code in Xcode? [duplicate]
I wonder how can I format my code to align it neatly? Does it have a feature similar to Eclipse's ctrlshiftf?
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