From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: (Fwd) printf for converting numbers to letters, bug?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:00:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040326170042.GA19532@scowler.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040326164256.ZM18660@candle.brasslantern.com>
> Looks like "%c" is interpreting the argument as a string and printing
> the first character thereof. It should work more like %d, shouldn't it?
Not according to POSIX; the argument to %b, %c, or %s is to be
interpreted as a string.
If we had octal brace expansion, he could do something like
printf "%b\n" \\0{101..145}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-26 16:42 Bart Schaefer
2004-03-26 17:00 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2004-03-27 23:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-28 4:49 ` Clint Adams
2004-03-29 11:57 ` Oliver Kiddle
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