From: _z33 <timid.Gentoo@gmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what do the dots mean?
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:45:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfeo9p$m08$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050904120533.40576.qmail@web61014.mail.yahoo.com>
sumit kalra wrote:
> Well, the first dot along with the 24 (%.24s)
> specifies to printf to print only 24 characters of the
> string.
>
> Second dot is a full stop after the string. :-)
>
Thanks for the info.
But in that case when you remove the first dot you should be able to see
the second dot for sure, right? But the moment I remove the first dot,
the second dot disappears from the output.
_z33
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-05 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-04 20:55 what do the dots mean? _z33
2005-09-04 12:05 ` sumit kalra
2005-09-05 0:45 ` _z33 [this message]
2005-09-04 13:10 ` sumit kalra
2005-09-05 16:04 ` Stephen Samuel
2005-09-06 16:51 ` _z33
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