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zero padding does not work in combination with plus sign

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by locating the format-specifier handling and reproduce the difference between %07d, %+d, and %+07d; done means the combined form preserves the plus sign and applies zero padding for positive values, with regression coverage for these cases.

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Description

i.e. %07d will result in padding to 7 digits with zeros and %+d will show unpadded digits with plus sign if positive, but %+07d only shows the plus sign (if positive) but does not zero pad

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C++
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