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reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
I'm having trouble understanding the docs on this. From what I could tell, 
it seemed like both of these should work:

writef("%.2X", myByte);
writef("%02X", myByte);

But both of them just simply print the format string as-is.
Aug 28 2010
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> wrote in message 
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 I'm having trouble understanding the docs on this. From what I could tell, 
 it seemed like both of these should work:

 writef("%.2X", myByte);
 writef("%02X", myByte);

 But both of them just simply print the format string as-is.


I gotta learn not to simplify my test cases without re-testing them...

The above examples work fine, but the following don't - what I'm trying to 
do here is output a percent sign followed by a hex byte (as in URL escape 
sequences), but these just output "%%02X":

ubyte myByte = 0x09;
writef("%%%.2X", myByte);
writef("%%%02X", myByte);

I know I can easily work around that, but I'm wondering if this is a bug or 
if I've misunderstood how that format syntax is supposed to work.
Aug 28 2010
parent reply torhu <no spam.invalid> writes:
On 29.08.2010 07:06, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 ubyte myByte = 0x09;
 writef("%%%.2X", myByte);
 writef("%%%02X", myByte);


On codepad.org (DMD 1.026 last time I checked), this prints this:
%09%09

So it's probably a bug in the new formatting code.  I assume it's 
supposed to follow the C behavior in this case.
Aug 28 2010
parent "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"torhu" <no spam.invalid> wrote in message 
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 On 29.08.2010 07:06, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 ubyte myByte = 0x09;
 writef("%%%.2X", myByte);
 writef("%%%02X", myByte);


 On codepad.org (DMD 1.026 last time I checked), this prints this:
 %09%09

 So it's probably a bug in the new formatting code.  I assume it's supposed 
 to follow the C behavior in this case.


http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4775
Aug 31 2010