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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Examine and ExNext return codes
Keywords: ints, Examine
Message-ID: <5596@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 14:38:04 GMT
References: <246@dsacg2.UUCP> <247@dsacg2.UUCP>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <247@dsacg2.UUCP> nor1675@dsacg2.UUCP (Michael Figg) writes:
$[deleted broken program source]
$But am still curious about "%ls%.
$comes down to what does "%ls" give you? Does it have something to do with
$the fact that "fib->fib_FileName[0]" being an address (pointer) therefore
$a long, and not an int? Am I going to answer all my own questions?

String parameters (%s) in printf require pointers as arguments.  Prefixing
any format arguments in printf with "l" specifies that the INTEGER argument
is a LONG and not just a regular INT.  To print long values in hex for
example, you use "%lx".  I would expect printf parses but ignores "l" in "%ls".

I think Rob got carried away with "l" because they empirically worked. :-)

$Thanks again.

You're welcome.

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	Paul.