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Re: another newbie question

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Aug 30, 1999
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brian K. Broker <bkb at CNW.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: another newbie question


> On Sunday, August 29, 1999 9:10 PM Kat said:
>
>
> > In the following code:
> >
> > while ( sequence(thisseq[nest1]) ) do
> >     printf(1,"%s\n",thisseq[nest1])
> >
> > the exw trace screen colors the brackets around the "nest1" in the first
> > line, but doesn't color them in the second line. And i wanted the whole
> > nested sequence printed as it is shown in the blue screen at the bottom
of
> > the trace screen, i didn't want the first char of the first nested
> sequence.
> > What is it i am not understanding here?
> >
> > Kat,
> > perplexed again.
>
> In the reference manual for printf you will find the following:
>
> Comments: Watch out for the following common mistake:
>      name="John Smith"
>     printf(1, "%s", name)     -- error!
>
>
>  This will print only the first character, J, of name, as each element of
> name is taken to be a separate value to be formatted. You must say this
> instead:
>      name="John Smith"
>     printf(1, "%s", {name})   -- correct

Actually, this print line prints the first nested sequence of the sequence:

printf(1,"%s\n",thisseq)

 but the colors are not displaying the same, and i wonder if that is a bug
in the colorizer or the trace parser? So how do i specify to print the 2nd
nested sequence?

Kat,
still perplexed.