"%02d" vs "%.2d"

[Chris Torek]

In article <13368 at ncoast.ORG> allbery at ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>One other reason as well:  it's not possible to get zero padding when using
>variable width fields (%*d) under the old scheme.

	printf("%0*d", width, value)

works fine.  (`Note that 0 is a flag, not a field width'....)

(Of course, there may be any number of implementations that got this wrong.)
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