From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Weird output of printf()
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:05:40 +0000
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT acp3bf DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

> > If it should work then I would expect "%#02x" to be the required
> 
> Make that "%#04x", and it'll work. The '2' is too small, as it has to
> count total output field width, including the "0x" added by that '#'
> option in the format.

Aha! Quite obvious really. :-)

> Alternatively, you could 
> 
> 	printf("0x%02x\n", 0x0f);
> 
> Same result, easier to understand.