Spread money gift around a group of children

Strings and the String library. example from a Well House Consultants training course
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• String formatting in Lua - string.format as a wrapper for sprintf - [link]

Source code: kiddos Module: U104

--[[
A String formatting example in Lua
]]

-- Strings may be written in single or double quotes
-- of in pairs of sqaure brackets to make 'em multiline

names = {"Angie",'Bill',"Claire",'David',"Enid",'Fred',
        "Gina",'Harry',"Isobel",'James',"Katie",
        'Larry',"Melanie",'Nick',"Olive",'Peter'}

story = [[Each year, Stephanie and William had another
child and each year the Christmas gift that their uncle
Bulgaria could give each child was cut down.]]

print (story)

amount = 900 -- pounds available
inflation = 2.7
first_year = 92

for nkids=1,#names do
        say = string.format("In %02d they had %8s - child no %2d",
                (first_year + nkids -1)%100, names[nkids], nkids)
        claymore = string.format (" %7.2f split between gave %-7.2f each",
                amount,amount/nkids)
        print (say .. claymore)
        amount = amount * (1 + inflation/100)
end
print (string.format("Assumes inflation at %.2f%%",inflation))

--[[ ------------ Sample Output
[trainee@easterton u104]$ lua kiddos
Each year, Stephanie and William had another
child and each year the Christmas gift that their uncle
Bulgaria could give each child was cut down.
In 92 they had Angie - child no 1 900.00 split between gave 900.00 each
In 93 they had Bill - child no 2 924.30 split between gave 462.15 each
In 94 they had Claire - child no 3 949.26 split between gave 316.42 each
In 95 they had David - child no 4 974.89 split between gave 243.72 each
In 96 they had Enid - child no 5 1001.21 split between gave 200.24 each
In 97 they had Fred - child no 6 1028.24 split between gave 171.37 each
In 98 they had Gina - child no 7 1056.00 split between gave 150.86 each
In 99 they had Harry - child no 8 1084.52 split between gave 135.56 each
In 00 they had Isobel - child no 9 1113.80 split between gave 123.76 each
In 01 they had James - child no 10 1143.87 split between gave 114.39 each
In 02 they had Katie - child no 11 1174.75 split between gave 106.80 each
In 03 they had Larry - child no 12 1206.47 split between gave 100.54 each
In 04 they had Melanie - child no 13 1239.05 split between gave 95.31 each
In 05 they had Nick - child no 14 1272.50 split between gave 90.89 each
In 06 they had Olive - child no 15 1306.86 split between gave 87.12 each
In 07 they had Peter - child no 16 1342.14 split between gave 83.88 each
Assumes inflation at 2.70%
[trainee@easterton u104]$
]]

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