From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: sumit kalra <i_am_sumit_kalra@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: what do the dots mean?
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:05:33 +0100 (BST)
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To: _z33 <timid.Gentoo@gmail.com>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org

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. :-)

-Sumit

--- _z33 <timid.Gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not able to understand the usage of dots (inside
> the printf's 
> arguments) in the following code. Please enlighten
> me!
> 
> 	[code]
> 	#include <stdio.h>
> 	#include <time.h>
> 	
> 	main()
> 	{	
> 		time_t now;
> 			
> 		time(&now);
> 		printf("It's %.24s.\n", ctime(&now));
> 		
> 		system ("PAUSE");
> 		return 0;
> 	}
> 	[/code]
> 
> _z33
> -- 
> I love TUX; well... that's an understatement :)
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