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Re: Printing String

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janus wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> printf("\nMy last card %s\n");
>
> From my understanding of C, the above should print "My last card "
> but I got "My last card Sample" . "Sample" was the last data my
> function worked on. Why this behavior?

First, please try and wrap your lines...

printf expected another parameter (to match the %s) and the text 
"Sample" happened to be in memory where it expected the parameter to be.

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Ian Collins

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Printing String janus <emekamicro@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 01:52 -0700
  Re: Printing String fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 02:06 -0700
    Re: Printing String fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 02:12 -0700
  Re: Printing String Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-18 21:08 +1200
    Re: Printing String Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-18 11:13 +0100
      Re: Printing String Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-19 07:20 +1200
        Re: Printing String Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-18 20:45 +0100
          Re: Printing String Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-08-18 13:21 -0700
          Re: Printing String David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-19 09:05 +0200
            Re: Printing String James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-19 10:25 -0400
            Re: Printing String David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-08-19 16:15 -0700
        Re: Printing String Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-18 20:48 +0100
  Re: Printing String David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-18 11:17 +0200
  Re: Printing String Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-08-18 09:05 -0700

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