Re: printf treats arguments of "%c" not as expected

[Yunfeng Wang]

Thanks Jan, Greg's solution is great!

wyf

2011/6/23 Jan Schampera <jan.schampera@web.de>:
> Hi,
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> I agree this is not a bug. %c works as described.
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> However, Mr. Wang may want to read one of Greg's brilliant FAQ entries [1].
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> In general it's a bit of a pity that printf can do character->number
> conversion, but not (directly) back. But it is like it is and the
> "workarounds" are not really complicated.
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> Jan
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> [1] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/071
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> --
> Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
> - jbp, master of the net, in RFC793
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