Formatting floats with a "<=" width?

From: John Watton
Subject: Formatting floats with a "<=" width?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <8qqb6q$kfo$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

I would like to format floats by giving them a maximum width that they
are permitted to use. If they need less then use less. That is pad with
no extra characters. I can't figure out an efficient way to do this.
This will work but not efficiently or convienently:

(format t "~a" (string-left-trim " " (format nil "~10f" 1.0)))

Anyone have another suggestion. Thanks.

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John Watton
Alcoa Inc.


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