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From: rgd@uunet!unhd (Roger G Desroches II)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: print format
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.162651.8083@uunet!unhd>
Date: 2 Aug 90 16:26:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computing Information Services, University of New Hampshire
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Is there a way to specify the format in a print statement with a variable.
What I want to do is print out a group of strings so they are all right
justified on the right side with the largest string.  (example)

	format = sizeof(largest_string);
	for (i=0;array[i];i++)
		printf("%[format]s\n",array[i]);
			     ^^^^^^^^
				 this is what I want to do.

I realize I can write a routine to do this, but I am going to be doing it
quite a bit and would like to keep the CPU time down to a minimum. Does anyone
have any ideas?         
						Thank you.


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