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From: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney 214+464-2771)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Wrapper function to sprintf
Message-ID: <429@tness1.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 03:35:29 GMT
References: <232400003@prism>
Reply-To: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney 214+464-2771)
Organization: S.W. Bell, Network Engineering
Lines: 47

In article <232400003@prism> atj@prism.UUCP writes:
>
>Hi, I am having a little problem with developing a "wrapper" to sprintf.
>What I wish to do is write a "dialog_box" routine that takes the
>same parameters as printf.  So, I have the following:
>dialog_box(cs, args)
>char	*cs;
>{
>	char	buffer[512];
>
>	sprintf(buffer, cs, args);

I couldn't figure out how to pass an array of pointers to sprintf()
and make it work correctly, but here's a dippy way that does work.
--
Greg Hackney
Southwestern Bell telephone Co.
mechjgh@tness1.UUCP

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 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <varargs.h>
 main()
 {
 	dialog("%s\t%s\t%s", "one", "two", "three");
 }
 char *
 dialog(format,va_alist)
 char *format;
 va_dcl
 {
 	va_list ap;
 	char *args[10];
 	char buffer[512];
 	int argcount = 0;
 	
 	va_start(ap);
 	while((args[argcount++] = va_arg(ap, char *)) != (char *)NULL)
 		;
 	va_end(ap);

 	sprintf(buffer,format,args[0],args[1],args[2],args[3],args[4],args[5],args[6],args[7],args[8],args[9]);
 	printf("%s\n",buffer);
 	return(buffer);

 }
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