From: "Giacomo Cau" <G DOT Cau AT gruppoina DOT it>
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Subject: Re: Gawk 3.0.3  print error?
Date: 2 Feb 2000 11:43:19 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> scritto nell'articolo
<389736D3 DOT 7A081734 AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>...
> Giacomo Cau wrote:
> > 
> > >gawk "BEGIN{OFMT=\"%012.0f\";print OFMT,1,sprintf(OFMT,1)}"
> > 
> > %012.0f 1 000000000001
> 
> What seems to be the problem, exactly?  I don't see anything wrong with
this
> result; that's what I'd expect "%012.0f" to produce.  The leading zero
says
> to pad with zeros, and .0 says no fractional digits.
> 

the problem is not in the "sprintf" but is in the "print 1".
In fact it seems that OFMT in not used to format numbers.

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