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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: printf zero-pads strings?
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Date: 22 Oct 89 14:09:39 GMT
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In article <7279@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> williams@beowulf.ucsd.edu
(Paul Williamson) writes:
>  printf("%05s", "x");
>According to my old draft spec, and several compilers, this should print
>"0000x".  That is, it should pad the string on the left with zeroes.  But
>K&R2 and several other compilers give "    x", claiming that zero-padding
>applies only to numeric values.

(K&R2 is not a compiler.)

The 4.4BSD doprnt.c (essentially the one I posted to comp.lang.c) prints
"0000x".  This appears to conform to the letter of the standard (we wrote
the thing based on the letter of the standard!).
-- 
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