From 45f45444b307cea7c8330b100b30382e642e010f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Shannon Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 15:05:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fmt: clarify right-padded strings use spaces Fixes #51419 Change-Id: I0a32f41a6e6e01481ad58c7dddb57ec7085d77af Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/389434 Reviewed-by: Rob Pike Trust: Ian Lance Taylor --- src/fmt/doc.go | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/fmt/doc.go b/src/fmt/doc.go index c584cc9465..4a09555734 100644 --- a/src/fmt/doc.go +++ b/src/fmt/doc.go @@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ ' ' (space) leave a space for elided sign in numbers (% d); put spaces between bytes printing strings or slices in hex (% x, % X) 0 pad with leading zeros rather than spaces; - for numbers, this moves the padding after the sign + for numbers, this moves the padding after the sign; + ignored for strings, byte slices and byte arrays Flags are ignored by verbs that do not expect them. For example there is no alternate decimal format, so %#d and %d -- 2.50.0