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Re: %#b format: bug?
From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
September 9, 1999 09:51
Subject:
Re: %#b format: bug?
Message ID:
199909091650.JAA01263@activestate.com
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 10:58:50 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>Tom Christiansen writes:
> > But
> >
> > printf "%#b\n", 181
> > 010110101
> >
> > I should have expected
> >
> > 0b10110101
> >
> > for that one.
This is a bug.
> And given this:
> >
> > printf "%#X\n", 181
> > 0XB5
> >
> > This surprises me:
> >
> > printf "%#B\n", 181
> > %#B
>
>Fixed now for _62.
But not this. %X (and therefore %#X) makes sense given some hex
characters are alphabets. One can't justify %B or %#B in the
same way.
Sarathy
gsar@activestate.com