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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf format
Message-ID: <1940@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 89 20:17:46 GMT
References: <5761@ozdaltx.UUCP> <987@nsi.UUCP>
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <987@nsi.UUCP> javiv@nsi.UUCP (Javier Vilarroig Christensen.) writes:
| In article <5761@ozdaltx.UUCP> root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
| >In the back of my mind, it seems like I read that there is a format
| >character used in printf(C) that allows the formatting of numbers.
| 
| It's imposible to do this with printf. You must make a funtion to do it in
| a string, and then feed it to printf.

  Since I can't read the original poster's mind, I'll take a stab that
he *might* be thinking of the * character, used to specify the width in
an argument evaluated at runtime.

Ex:	n = 14; 		/* set field width */
	printf("Val: %*d sec", n, m);
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon