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From: db@tc.fluke.COM (Dan Banay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PERL PL41 bug
Keywords: printf
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.180853.25279@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 90 18:08:53 GMT
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Lines: 23

Greetings.   With Perl PL37, the following program:

printf '%c', 240;
printf '%c', 0;
printf '%c', 255;

writes out three bytes:  240, 0, and 255.

But, with PL41, it writes only two bytes: 240, and 255.


BTW, will the next release finally include the kitchen sink? ;-)

Thanks!

Dan
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