From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: _z33 Subject: Re: what do the dots mean? Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:45:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20050904120533.40576.qmail@web61014.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050904120533.40576.qmail@web61014.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 -- I love TUX; well... that's an understatement :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs