trouble getting leading zero's or spaces to show

[ratgod]

Hi There,
I have a PIC18F2580 attached to a 20x4 hitachi LCD, it all works fine and my code is pretty stable, but I am unable to display the leading zero's or spaces of a floating point number.

The information displayed should be lined up but its appears to not be.

the code I am using is:

[Ttelmah]

Your main problem, is that the number in front of the DP, in the format, is too small. In C, this is the _total field width_, not the number of digits in front of the decimal. So for your numbers with three leading digits (238.9 for example), this number needs to be 6, not 4. 6, since a numeric field in C, always has one leading space. So you need space, three digits, decimal, one digit. Total 6 characters wide.
The '0', _will_ appear, once the field is wider than the output. Leading zeros are _only_ displayed, when the number needs less digits than the field. So with the 6 used, you will get a leading zero, but at present, you won't.

Best Wishes

[ratgod]

thanks Ttelmah,

That worked a treat, now it shows correct spacing.

it's this sort of thing you miss when you teach yourself programming languagees