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From: cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jon Sweedler)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.unix.questions
Subject: better printf
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Date: 16 Mar 88 12:07:30 GMT
Reply-To: cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jon Sweedler)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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I am looking for a print formatter with a little more power than
printf.  Believe it or not, I would like something similar to the PRINT
USING statement in BASIC (never thought that I would want C to have a
feature of BASIC!!).  More specifically, I want to be able to print out
a number with different formatting commands (i.e. with spaces or commas
between its digits), and I would also like to be able to print out
binary numbers.  For example:

PRINT USING "## ## ##", a
would print (if a = 823923)
82 39 23
And of course I would also like to be able to control the output radix.
Does anyone know of anything like this that exists?  Thanks in advance.
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