printf format

Scott Amspoker scott at bbxsda.UUCP
Thu Dec 21 10:36:12 AEST 1989


In article <1940 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at 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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