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Re: I found an error in printf

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 27, 2003
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xerox_irs at lvcm.com wrote:
> printf(1,"Unknown Charachter \"%s\"\n",{13})
> --<outputs>in 2.3 and 2.4
> "nknown Charachter "

I'd say that was correct.
13 is \r, i.e. carriage return.
When it's printed, it moves the
cursor to the left margin, but it does not
move to the next line. After 13, the next character
to be printed is " which overwrites the U in Unknown.
Finally, you output a \n which moves to the next line.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com