Am 08.08.2011 um 03:56 schrieb [email protected]: >> Here's something I came up with, as a proof of concept for >> getting rid of the backspace, which relies on the fact that >> printf doesn't care if it had more arguments than it does >> placeholders in the format string. > > Though you can just forget it, as it won't work in all cases, > unless you construct the output string one value at a time. > > The bit I missed is that whilst printf doesn't care about > the number of args matching the placeholders, it has no way > to know that it needs to throw one, or more, way. > > Oh well, nice idea: shame about the implementation!
When I get you right, it would mean a recursive interpretation of the format string which was built so far. With the side effect that it would be hard to output a %d literally, as it would be seen as a format string for the following arguments. -- Reuti > -- > Kevin M. Buckley Room: CO327 > School of Engineering and Phone: +64 4 463 5971 > Computer Science > Victoria University of Wellington > New Zealand > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
