Re: what do the dots mean?

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

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.

_z33 wrote:

> 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.

        printf("It's %.24s.\n", ctime(&now));
        system ("PAUSE");

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