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digitalmars.D.learn - writefln not liking % in strings!?

reply AEon <aeon2001 lycos.de> writes:
Testing ASCII chars above 128 (testing my translation code), I wrote 
this little test:

char[] test;
test.length=256;
for(int i=0; i<=255; i++)
	test[i] = cast(char) i;

// Checks char by char, and offsets them to "good" chars
remove_q1_Color_Names(test);	

printf("\nLine: >%.*s<\n\n",test[1..$]);

writefln("Line: >",test[1..$]);

This yields the following result fro printf:

Line: >               []0123456789.<=> 

lmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ 
<=>             []0123456789.<=> 

lmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ 
<

printf dumps the translated chars as planned.



% messes up code

writefln on the other hand exits on the % character.



This is more of a warning to the writefln fans. Avoid using it for 
situations where a % *can* be part of a string you try to output. Ugly!


Back to prinft() for me again. Luckily when translating my code I kept 
printf() most of the time.

AEon
Mar 29 2005
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
AEon wrote:

 writefln on the other hand exits on the % character.
Unless you write "%%", which is the way to output a % character.
 This is more of a warning to the writefln fans. Avoid using it for 
 situations where a % *can* be part of a string you try to output. Ugly!
You just need to add a "%s" format, before the string itself... Reasons like this are exactly why I wrote std.stdio.writeln It doesn't have any such "special" characters, like % or so. --anders
Mar 29 2005
parent AEon <aeon2001 lycos.de> writes:
Anders F Björklund wrote:

 writefln on the other hand exits on the % character.
Unless you write "%%", which is the way to output a % character.
Right, but since I am normally reading string from text files, a % would require a converttion to %%.
 This is more of a warning to the writefln fans. Avoid using it for 
 situations where a % *can* be part of a string you try to output. Ugly!
You just need to add a "%s" format, before the string itself...
Ahh... ops... lazy me!
 Reasons like this are exactly why I wrote std.stdio.writeln
 It doesn't have any such "special" characters, like % or so.
:) AEon
Mar 29 2005