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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Managing error strings in C
Message-ID: <14937@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 23 Jan 91 22:30:42 GMT
References: <620@necssd.NEC.COM> <1991Jan19.163652.9203@hemel.bull.co.uk> <1991Jan22.021205.29632@dirtydog.ima.isc.com>
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In article <1991Jan22.021205.29632@dirtydog.ima.isc.com> karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>X/Open has it.  "%4$d" means print the 4th argument in decimal.

Apart from the implementation issues you mentioned, I'd like to point
out that the character '$' is not universally available.