In article <p05100304b8aca0caa3ca@[192.168.254.205]>, Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 5:27 PM -0800 3/6/02, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >>> "The format string is reused as often as necessary >>> to satisfy the arguments." >> >>Where did you get that? Not true for Perl or C. > >Apparently, when I did a "man printf", I got the one in FreeBSD's Section 1: >> The format string is reused as often as necessary to satisfy the >> arguments. Any extra format specifications are evaluated with zero or >> the null string.
Thats funky. POSIX (IEEE 1003.1-2001) says: If the format is exhausted while arguments remain, the excess arguments shall be evaluated but are otherwise ignored. And C99 (ISO 9899-1999 section 7.19.6.1) says: If the format is exhausted while arguments remain, the excess arguments are evaluated (as always) but are otherwise ignored. Does it in fact reuse the format on your system? >I also think Fortran FORMAT statements acted this way, but it's been >far too long for me to remember for sure... In any case, it seems >that it isn't a problem... Yes, Fortran mostly works this way.
