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Re: Customizing printf

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jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) writes:

> In article <20111121145051.881@kylheku.com>,
> Kaz Kylheku  <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
>>Suppose you had a translations file with records
>
> For simple things:
>
>     printf("s %3d %9.6f\n", j, sum);
>
> printf works great, and i have no problem with it.
>
> Concise, easy to learn, easy to understand.
>
> If you add user-defined operators (what next, while loops?), and your
> format strings are other than compile-time constants, i just think
> you'll be dishappy with the result.
>
> I18N is more than switching format strings.  There are libraries to do
> it, and you'll probably save yourself headaches if you make use of them.

Absolutely.  Some of them, in fact, such as GNU gettext, work the
way that Kaz describes.
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  Re: Customizing printf Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-11-15 10:10 -0800
    Re: Customizing printf jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-15 21:36 +0100
      Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-15 12:51 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 18:03 -0500
    Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-20 15:14 +0000
      Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-20 10:43 -0800
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        Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-21 22:23 +0000
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          Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-21 14:23 -0800
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            Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-23 00:09 +0000
              Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-22 16:16 -0800
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