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[Bug manual/14695] Wrong printf("%3s"...) Example --- manual subsection "12.12.6 Other Output Conversions"


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14695

R N Alx <lascania at gmail dot com> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #2 from R N Alx <lascania at gmail dot com> 2012-10-10 10:28:12 UTC ---
Mr Schwab,

This example code, is not my own, not-my-own example !
printf ("%3s%-6s", "no", "where")

this example is writen in the manual, it is writen wrong inside the online
manual.

I filled this bug because I want the online manual subsection "12.12.6 Other
Output Conversions" to be changed because of two reasons:

1. reason one

there are missing two dots, %3.s and %-.6s

2. reason two

printf ("%.3s%-.6s", "no", "where") does YES YES YES produce " nowhere ".
but not because of the output conversion arguments .3 and -.6, but because
these two strings are only two characters and five characters long, thus the
output conversion arguments .3 and -.6 have no influence

but if the online manual is changed to:
printf ("%.3s%-.6s", "noOoO", "whereEeEeEeE")
the result will be " noOwhereE "

which is what the online manual is trying to explain how printf() is using
output conversion arguments to cut strings


CHECK THE .GIF IMAGE
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6678

CHECK THE ONLINE MANUAL
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Other-Output-Conversions.html#Other-Output-Conversions

Thanx

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