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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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  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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