Dan Bar Dov wrote:
I'm not using it from shell, that was just an example. I need to read
format strings from file
and use them to print stuff like error reports (the error includes
only parameters, and the format string comes from a file.
Please bear in mind that allowing a party to write
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Dan Bar Dov wrote about "Re: Help with printf":
> > There are several ways you can fix this problem. The most obvious one is
> > to parse the string in the C code, and do the replacement of \n into a
>
> Is there a library function that does t
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Dan Bar Dov wrote about "Help with printf":
> >...
> > But if I put the format in a variable (as opposed to a string literal), I
> > find that
> > escape processing does not occur.
> >...
> > and runn
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:11:07AM +0300, Dan Bar Dov wrote:
> Usually we use printf with a string literal for the format,
> e.g.
> printf("%d flowers\n",count);
>
> But if I put the format in a variable (as opposed to a string literal), I
> find that
> escape processing does not occur.
>
> so us
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Dan Bar Dov wrote about "Help with printf":
>...
> But if I put the format in a variable (as opposed to a string literal), I
> find that
> escape processing does not occur.
>...
> and running (# is the prompt)
> # ./test "%s flowers\n" 7
>
> give the output
> 7 flowers\n#
Wh
