I am making some animations with the @animate macro and would like to display time in the title. Right now I am using string(round(t,digits=2)) but whenever the converted number has less than two decimals the text gets re-aligned resulting in a jittering effect. [animation] The command @printf("%…

[image] Juraj Lieskovský: The command @printf("%.2",1) produces the desired output but sends it to the IO instead of a variable. See @sprintf .

Convert float to string with given decimal points

stevengj October 15, 2022, 12:19pm 3

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