From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
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Subject: Re: sprintf() string length?
Date: 16 Oct 1997 14:01:16 GMT
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Jonathan Foster (jgf1 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: Peter Palotas wrote:
: > Is there a way to find out the length of the string that sprintf() will
: > generate, without writing it anywhere?

: The "fprintf" command will return the number of characters output,

I thought it returns the number of correctly parsed arguments after
the format string. But my Solaris man pages say you are right.

: and you should fopen DOS's "NULL" file to send the output to.

You mean NUL. Not very portable solution.

: "NULL" is a "black hole" which will swallow and ignore anything you
: send to it.  Although "NULL" never appears in a directory, it
: exists everywhere.  (I think the UNIX equivalent is "/dev/nul",
: but I've never used UNIX.)

That's "/dev/null" or "/dev/zero". Works for DJGPP too, automagicly :)

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