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From: gharris@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Buddy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf() problem
Keywords: C printf
Message-ID: <353@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 89 18:56:26 GMT
References: <11657@hodge.UUCP>
Reply-To: gharris@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Buddy Harris)
Organization: NCR SE-Columbia, West Columbia, SC
Lines: 21

In article <11657@hodge.UUCP> jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) writes:
->    I fopen() the file in binary mode and used the following line
->    of code to read and print out the data:
->        printf("%x %x %x %x\n", getc(fp), getc(fp), getc(fp), getc(fp));
->    Although the order of the data in the file is:
->        92 AB 4E 33
->    printf() displays it as:
->        33 4E AB 92

This is something that I don't understand either, but apparently 
printf() evluates from right to left.  Be careful with stetements like this:

     printf("%d %d %d %d", i++, i++, i++, i++);

This evluates from right to left also.  

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