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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: printf zero-pads strings?
Summary: How did you interpret
Message-ID: <1430@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 89 19:09:37 GMT
References: <7279@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <20327@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <20327@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:

|  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!).

  I would be delighted if it workds that way, having a program which
uses it (input strings are digit sequences with leading zeros stripped),
now I ask you, what does "%-05x" give. I won't be on the machine with
your doprint until Friday, thought you might remember.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon