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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "%#s"?
Message-ID: <1039@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 05:38:43 GMT
References: <AWbStey00Uk4E0S14d@andrew.cmu.edu> <1988May28.222450.2680@utzoo.uucp> <19166@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Posted: Mon May 30 22:38:43 1988

In article <19166@watmath.waterloo.edu>, rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
> Perhaps %#s and %#c can be added in future updates to the language.

In the mean-time, why not post sources for a
	spr_str(char *buffer, int width, int places, char *source)
function equivalent to
	sprintf(buffer, "%#*.*s", width, places, source)
so that we can try the idea out?  I suggest width < 0 means the equivalent
of "%#.*s" and places < 0 means the equivalent of "%#*s".
{spr_str(buf, width, 1, &c) can serve for sprintf(buf, "%#*c", width, c).}

When we have some prior art going, we can ask for it to be added to printf.