Re: sprintf and printf in Perl

Chen Li wrote:

I want to print out a AoA. If I use printf I get what
I expect. If I use sprintf for string I get error
messages

What is making you think that printf() and sprintf() can be used
interchangably?


but the remaining still look OK. But If use
sprintf also for numbers I get nothing only error
messages. I look at the POD. It looks like sprintf and
printf are changeable to me.

WHAT part of the POD says that?

perldoc -f printf
printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST
printf FORMAT, LIST
Equivalent to "print FILEHANDLE sprintf(FORMAT,
LIST)", except that "$\" (the output record
separator) is not appended.

Any comments?

What about the above makes you think that you can replace printf with
sprintf or vice-versa?

Paul Lalli

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