From: Martin Jambon <martin1977@laposte.net>
To: Peter Gregory <Peter.Gregory@cis.strath.ac.uk>
Cc: ermine@ermine.pp.ru, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] printf and positional specifier
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:52:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611111240170.2503@droopy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4556342C.10109@cis.strath.ac.uk>
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Peter Gregory wrote:
> Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> $ ocaml
>> Objective Caml version 3.09.3
>>
>> # open Printf;;
>> # printf "%2$d %1$s" "abc" 2;;
>> Bad conversion %$, at char number 0 in format string ``%2$d %1$s''
>>
>>
>> How?
>>
>> ermine
>>
>
> Hi Ermine,
>
> I'm not sure that I understand your question. I think to achieve what you
> seem to be trying, you would simply write:
>
> # printf "%d %s" 2 "abc";;
>
> You just put the parameters in the order they came in the string. Does that
> help, it seems like perhaps you needed more than that.
The dollar stuff is real, although I have no idea of how to make it work.
It's the last paragraph in the description of Printf.fprintf:
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Printf.html
Martin
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Martin Jambon, PhD
http://martin.jambon.free.fr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-11 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-11 20:12 Anastasia Gornostaeva
2006-11-11 20:35 ` [Caml-list] " Peter Gregory
2006-11-11 20:52 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2006-11-11 21:15 ` Peter Gregory
2006-11-11 21:26 ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-11 21:40 ` Anastasia Gornostaeva
2006-11-12 0:46 ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-11 20:59 ` Anastasia Gornostaeva
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