>   Re: %12s
 >   By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sat Jul 20 2019 03:08 am

 >  >   Re: %12s
 >  >   By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Fri Jul 19 2019 03:54 pm

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

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

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

 >  >                                             digital man

 >  > This Is Spinal Tap quote #13:
 >  > Nigel Tufnel: You can't really dust for vomit.
 >  > Norco, CA WX: 60.2°F, 92.0% humidity, 0 mph SE wind, 0.00 inches
 >  > rain/24hrs

 > one more question here: if it's %11.11 %11.11 are those information or
 > formats also?

More precisely, %11.11s ... which basically limits the output to the first 11
character in a DOS 8.3 file format ... notice these %s are in a print or
printf() statement and are in the C programming language style ... it may be
helpful if you 'google' "c print formatting" :-)




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