Simple code examples in Zig, for beginners

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Now let go back to understand number output formatting

Aha.

What does 'alignment' component in format string mean?

According to this description: Alignment: One of three characters ‘<’, ‘^’ or ‘>’; these are for left, middle and right alignment First I thought it is about aligning within output column, like // left 1 123 // right 1 123 // middle 1 123 But… this code const std = @import("std"); const log = std.log; pub fn main() void { const x: u32 = 0x0000_0001; log.info("x = 0x{X}", .{x}); log.info("x = 0x{X:0>8}", .{x}); log.info("x = 0x{X:0<8}", .{x}); log.info("x = 0x{X:0…

but note - it is not a property of the language.