[Austin]

Not sure how well known this is, only just figured this out for myself.

I wanted to limit the length of a string in a format, and usually I would have a separate string of the needed length, or use strmid, but I figured out that it can be done in format just like it can be done with floats.

This would show a float as a maximum of 4 decimal points.

Код:

format(str, sizeof(str), "%0.4f", somefloat);

You would think that this potentially the method to limit a string to 10 characters would be...

Код:

format(str, sizeof(str), "%10s", somestring);

...but it's not, it's the same as the float...

Код:

format(str, sizeof(str), "%0.10s", somestring);

... one thing that might be possible (haven't checked yet) is to use %5.10s to start at the 6th character in the string and take 10 characters from that point.

Sorry if this is old news.