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From: abcscnge@csuna.UUCP (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 5.1 question
Summary: No flames necessary this time, honest!!!
Keywords: Printf formats
Message-ID: <1587@csuna.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 19:12:41 GMT
References: <104@rpi.edu> <198@broadway.UUCP> <6951@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: abcscnge@csuna.UUCP (Scott "The Pseudo Hacker" Neugroschl)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <6951@june.cs.washington.edu> ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
]]    if(minute < 10)
]]        sprintf(min_str, "0%d", minute);
]]    else
]]        sprintf(min_str, "%d", minute);
]]
]]    if(second < 10)
]]        sprintf(sec_str, "0%d", second);
]]    else
]]        sprintf(sec_str, "%d", second);
]]
]]    printf("%2d:%s:%s", hour, min_str, sec_str);
]
]This can be shortened to
]
]     printf("%2d:%.2d:%.2d", hour, minute, second);
]
]				Kenneth Almquist


How about
     printf("%2d:%02d:%02d", hour, minute, second);

K&R (page 146) specify that the 0 is the pad character to pad out the
2 digit integer in this case.  Seems to solve all the problems. 


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