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Message   Nightfox    Digital Man   %12s   July 20, 2019
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  Re: %12s
  By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sat Jul 20 2019 03:08 am

 >> On line 126 and 128 there is a %12s variable in the text.dat file.
 >> what is this for?

 DM> text.dat string that contain % specifiers are for variable replacements.
 DM> The "names" of these strings usually end in "Fmt" (for "format";) and the
 DM> syntax is consistent with the C printf-style functions. 

 DM> So %12s means: a string of text, at least 12 characters wide,
 DM> right-justified. 

There are other % specifiers on that line too.  I wonder if he was asking what
specifically that %12s is for (i.e., what gets replaced for that one).

Nightfox

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