printf zero-pads strings?

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <20327 at mimsy.umd.edu>, chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:

|  The 4.4BSD doprnt.c (essentially the one I posted to comp.lang.c) prints
|  "0000x".  This appears to conform to the letter of the standard (we wrote
|  the thing based on the letter of the standard!).

  I would be delighted if it workds that way, having a program which
uses it (input strings are digit sequences with leading zeros stripped),
now I ask you, what does "%-05x" give. I won't be on the machine with
your doprint until Friday, thought you might remember.
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