• Arthur Buse (14/14) Jun 17 2002 The page for stdio of the Runtime Library Reference,
• Jan Knepper (5/10) Jun 17 2002 Yes I would think that is a mistake.
• Arthur Buse (22/32) Jun 17 2002 Ah, you are too busy to compile and run.
• Walter (4/19) Jun 18 2002 Actually, the text was translated from pdf format, and the automatic

Arthur Buse <zathris hotmail.com> writes:

The page for stdio of the Runtime Library Reference, 
http://www.digitalmars.com/rtl/stdio.html#fread 
the "Example for fread" contains the line
   printf ("Data read\n %. 256s", buf);

Is that space between the . and 256 a mistake? Nothing is printed. The
example below also does not print the string. If the space after . is
removed, it works.

(Real email address is zathras at freeuk dot com )


   #include <stdio.h>

   main()
   {
      char buf[]="Hello, world!";
      printf("\nbuf contains: %. 13s", buf);
   }

Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:

Arthur Buse wrote:

 The page for stdio of the Runtime Library Reference,
 http://www.digitalmars.com/rtl/stdio.html#fread
 the "Example for fread" contains the line
    printf ("Data read\n %. 256s", buf);

 Is that space between the . and 256 a mistake?

Yes I would think that is a mistake.
The format string should be
"%256s"

Jan

Arthur Buse <zathris hotmail.com> writes:

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:37:00 -0400, Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc>
wrote:

Arthur Buse wrote:

 The page for stdio of the Runtime Library Reference,
 http://www.digitalmars.com/rtl/stdio.html#fread
 the "Example for fread" contains the line
    printf ("Data read\n %. 256s", buf);

 Is that space between the . and 256 a mistake?

Yes I would think that is a mistake.
The format string should be
"%256s"

Ah, you are too busy to compile and run. <grin> 

The buffer is 256 chars and is probably not \0 terminated, 
just the first 256 chars from some file. "%256s" pads the 
field with spaces. "%.256s" limits it to 256 chars.

Sorry to go on about this, but people like me are trying 
to learn from the Runtime Library Reference.

   #include <stdio.h>

   main()
   {
      char buf[]="Hello, world!";

      printf("\nfirst 5 chars of buf: %.5s", buf);
      printf("\nbuf padded to 20 chars: %20s", buf);
   }


Output: 
first 5 chars of buf: Hello
buf padded to 20 chars:        Hello, world!


Arthur.
-- 
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"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Arthur Buse" <zathris hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:37:00 -0400, Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc>
 wrote:

Arthur Buse wrote:

 The page for stdio of the Runtime Library Reference,
 http://www.digitalmars.com/rtl/stdio.html#fread
 the "Example for fread" contains the line
    printf ("Data read\n %. 256s", buf);

 Is that space between the . and 256 a mistake?

Yes I would think that is a mistake.
The format string should be
"%256s"

 Ah, you are too busy to compile and run. <grin>

Actually, the text was translated from pdf format, and the automatic
translator inserts random spaces in the output.