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Re: [MacPerl] Strange time output



At 10.50 -0500 2000.01.12, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:03:11PM +0100, Martin Danielsson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:26:32AM -0800, John W Baxter wrote:
>>
>> > The documentation also, I think, tells one that in sprintf and
>>friends, the
>> > specification %02d says to use *at least* two digits to represent the
>> > number and to zero fill if there is only one digit.  If there are 6 digits
>> > (unlikely for years) they will appear.
>> >
>> Actually, no it doesn't it just referrs to the documentation for
>> sprintf and "friends".
>
>More recent Perl documentation (not what comes with MacPerl) provides
>details on sprintf.

Which version?  I am looking at the perl5.00503 docs, and it really isn't
very clear for someone who doesn't already know how sprintf works.

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