printf zero-pads strings?
Wm E Davidsen Jr
davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM
Wed Oct 25 05:09:37 AEST 1989
In article <20327 at mimsy.umd.edu>, chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
| The 4.4BSD doprnt.c (essentially the one I posted to comp.lang.c) prints
| "0000x". This appears to conform to the letter of the standard (we wrote
| the thing based on the letter of the standard!).
I would be delighted if it workds that way, having a program which
uses it (input strings are digit sequences with leading zeros stripped),
now I ask you, what does "%-05x" give. I won't be on the machine with
your doprint until Friday, thought you might remember.
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