printf format

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <987 at nsi.UUCP> javiv at nsi.UUCP (Javier Vilarroig Christensen.) writes:
| In article <5761 at ozdaltx.UUCP> root at ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
| >In the back of my mind, it seems like I read that there is a format
| >character used in printf(C) that allows the formatting of numbers.
| 
| It's imposible to do this with printf. You must make a funtion to do it in
| a string, and then feed it to printf.

  Since I can't read the original poster's mind, I'll take a stab that
he *might* be thinking of the * character, used to specify the width in
an argument evaluated at runtime.

Ex:	n = 14; 		/* set field width */
	printf("Val: %*d sec", n, m);
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