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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: sprintf and the trailing null |
| Date | 2015-07-06 17:14 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87y4ittgad.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <be51c03d-a8d6-4c66-b490-85466818284d@googlegroups.com> <ba04e9b5-f889-45af-9595-033de6fa6fdf@googlegroups.com> |
"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> writes: <snip> > I think I will just write my own. I'll have to eventually anyway. > > I don't use the full set of printf format specifiers, and will add > the ones I need as they come up. I've also always had a dream of > using sprintf(buffer, "%3s", "abcdef"); and having it only copy > three characters, but I think I saw today in a google search where > using sprintf(buffer, "%.*s", 3, "abcdef"); would work. I like that, > but would prefer the %3s syntax. That syntax already means something, so you are ditching an existing meaning to get the one you want. Obviously, for you own provate language the choice is yours, but it would be a bad choice for something that people familiar with C (or any other language that shares C's printf specifiers) would have to learn. (And that's a lot of people!) -- Ben.
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sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 06:16 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null John McCue <jmccue@jmcnet1.bstnma.east.verizon.net> - 2015-07-06 13:30 +0000
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 06:37 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-07-06 21:58 +0800
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 07:12 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-07-06 22:34 +0800
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 08:44 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-06 15:46 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-06 08:06 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-06 17:42 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 09:48 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-06 18:07 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-06 12:40 -0500
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-06 10:46 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-06 18:58 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-06 16:38 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-06 23:44 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 15:48 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2015-07-08 20:09 +0300
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-08 10:11 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-08 19:01 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-09 09:02 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-09 17:07 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2015-07-10 17:06 +0300
Re: sprintf and the trailing null glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-09 17:42 +0000
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2015-07-10 13:33 +0300
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-10 12:09 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-10 04:51 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-10 17:24 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-10 08:33 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-11 04:58 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-07-06 14:15 +0000
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 07:20 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-07-06 19:54 +0000
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 13:31 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-06 21:52 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-07-06 22:52 +0000
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-07 01:04 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-06 19:13 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2015-07-07 12:45 +0800
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-07 10:15 +0200
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-07 10:31 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-07 02:51 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-07 12:10 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-07 05:08 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-07 13:52 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2015-07-08 20:20 +0300
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-08 18:51 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-07-09 10:27 +0000
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-10 19:03 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null gordonb.7tw58@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2015-07-07 15:40 -0500
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-07 15:14 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 07:27 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-07-06 16:46 +0000
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-06 07:56 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-07-06 09:32 -0600
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-06 08:37 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-06 08:54 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 08:53 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 09:00 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-06 17:14 +0100
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 09:24 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 09:31 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2015-07-07 01:43 +0200
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 17:09 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-07-06 21:08 -0600
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-06 21:29 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2015-07-08 20:24 +0300
Re: sprintf and the trailing null "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-08 10:44 -0700
Re: sprintf and the trailing null Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-07-07 21:48 -0500
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