OpenEuphoria

Re: Why Does Child Window Disappear?

• Posted by cafromsw at yahoo.com Jan 23, 2003
• 445 views

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind next time I need to
sprintf()
Chris cafromsw at yahoo.com

--- Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:58:01 -0800 (PST),
> cafromsw at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> >I do have one question though, why is the variable
> t
> >in sequence brackets {} in setText when it seems to
> >works fine without them?
> >setText( LText2, sprintf("This is message#%d",{t})
> )
> >setText( LText2, sprintf("This is message#%d",t) )
> 
> Convention: while sprintf("text %d", 2) and
> sprintf("text %d",{2})
> will both produce "text 2", if you code
> sprintf("text %s","test") and
> sprintf("text %s",{"test"}), then (as documented in
> the euphoria
> reference manual) the first will unexpectedly
> produce "text t",
> whereas the second (the more likely wanted) "text
> test".
> 
> Also, if your format string has more than one '%d'
> or '%s' etc, you
> need to use the {} to pass the fields as one
> parameter.
> 
> Since you often need the {}, and sometimes omitting
> them gives the
> wrong answer, it is easiest just to always get used
> to using them.
> 
> Like everything else, easy once you get used to it.
> 
> Pete
> 
>
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