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Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility.

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Can Perl insert commas into numbers with many digits using formatting strings?<BR><BR>I have this bit of code, and I need commas in the floating-point columns.<BR><BR ...

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Though Python 3 was released in 2008, many projects are still stuck on Python 2. It’s understandable that porting large existing codebases to a new version is a prospect which sends a shiver down many ...