Re: [MacPerl] Bug in printf

[Paul Hoffman <pubs@proper.com>]

At 1:05 PM -0700 9/12/96, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>This behavior seems entirely legitimate to me, as the C standard has no
>other definition for %#s. What was your intent in using %#20.20s?

Er, to see what it did. According to the Unix printf doc, it isn't supposed
to do anything special. I've found some things in the Camel book printf doc
that weren't right (like the 'c' format doesn't print anything), so I was
testing out various usages.

Why was I testing all this stuff? I guess I can make this an official
announcement: I'm writing _Perl For Dummies_, which will be out in maybe
six months. If you're not familiar witht the For Dummies line, it's
definitely low end. I hope to be two steps lower (and more understandable)
than the Llama book, and cheaper as well.

As you can imagine, describing printf format strings to this audience is a
bit challenging...

--Paul Hoffman