Re: understanding format specifiers

From: Ravi Uday <raviuday@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:34:25 +0530

Hi,

Yes they do automatic conversion for you :)

and if the result cannot be accomodated in the target the results are
un-defined :(

- Ravi

> Hi All,
> What does a 'format specifier' do?
> Suppose I do,
> int a = 43;  //decimal number
> printf("%x",a);
> I will get hex equivalent of 43.
> Does the format specifier do an implicit "decimal to hex" conversion
> before displaying ?
> Is it true for all format specifier?
> -Siliconwafer
>

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