G+: You learn something new every day:printf("%.*s\n", 5, "Hello, …

David Coles 28 Mar 2013

You learn something new every day:

printf("%.*s\n", 5, "Hello, world!");

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Jeremy Visser 28 Mar 2013

Wow, funky.

$ ./a.out
Hello

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David Coles 28 Mar 2013

Funky syntax though - initially I thought it was some sort of GNU regex extension. The scanf function also uses a '*' flag if you want to ignore a particular field. Apparently both features were snuck into C99. 

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