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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf format
Message-ID: <479@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 23:36:12 GMT
References: <5761@ozdaltx.UUCP> <987@nsi.UUCP> <1940@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
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In article <1940@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>  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);

No, the original, original poster wanted full numeric formatting capabilities
(you know, comma insertion and so forth).  That's all I need - a full numeric
formatter linked in everytime I use printf().



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