Surrpressing arguements in printf

[Jason Balser]

Does anyone know if there is a way to have printf "ignore" an argument in its
argument list? As an example, is there a way to get printf to skip over the
argument A in the following and print B:

printf("Print some stuff here %d.",A,B)

I want the value of B printed but not A. Due to the nature of what I am
doing,I cannot reverse the order of A and B.

Any help would be appreciated.

Please respond to oba...@clemson.edu

Thanks,
Jason

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[Peter Holzer]

oba...@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jason Balser) writes:

>Does anyone know if there is a way to have printf "ignore" an argument in its
>argument list? As an example, is there a way to get printf to skip over the
>argument A in the following and print B:

> printf("Print some stuff here %d.",A,B)

>I want the value of B printed but not A. Due to the nature of what I am
>doing,I cannot reverse the order of A and B.

Not in C as described in the ANSI and ISO standards. The X/Open standard
(to justify the `std' in the newsgroup name :-) specifies a mechanism
for reordering the arguments of printf. It looks something like this
printf ("B=%2$d, A=%1$d.", A, B);
I think I remember that you had to use all of the arguments, though
(sorry, I don't have X/Open at hand and the HP-UX manual pages aren't a
good indication of standards conformance).

hp

>Any help would be appreciated.

>Please respond to oba...@clemson.edu

>Thanks,
>Jason

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> * Jason Balser * "When you have eliminated the impossible, *
> * oba...@clemson.edu * whatever remains, however improbable, *

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