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From: _z33 <timid.Gentoo@gmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what do the dots mean?
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:51:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfj58o$fe3$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431C6C85.1050403@bcgreen.com>

Stephen Samuel wrote:
> No the second dot does NOT disappear... Watch  your output closely.
> You should also get yourself a linux distribution ( www.knoppix.org
> has bootable CD or DVD images ).  and try the command 'man ctime'
> (the reason why I say that is that is that 'PAUSE' is a DOS command)
> 
> The %.24s says "Only print the first 24 characters of the output
> from 'ctime'.  You see, the output from ctime includes a newline as
> the last (25th) character of it's output,  so  %.24s chops off the output
> just before the newline.
> 
> I.e. the resultint output is   <DATE>\n.\n
> 
> The trailing dot is now on the next line.

Thanks. I saw that :)

_z33
-- 
I love TUX; well... that's an understatement :)

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 16:51 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
2005-09-04 13:10     ` sumit kalra
2005-09-05 16:04     ` Stephen Samuel
2005-09-06 16:51       ` _z33 [this message]

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