sorry by mistake i added it in scanf situation..
actually this type of specifier can be used with printf statement for
finding the sum...
look at the code below....
main()
{
int a=9;
int b=3;
printf("%d\n",printf("%*s%*s",a,"",b,""));
system("pause");
}
On 6/23/11, Anika Jain <anika.jai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanx .. can u explain me how this is used in finding sum of 2 vars without
> using + ??
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Piyush Sinha
> <ecstasy.piy...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> An asterisk indicates that the data is to be retrieved from the use
>> but ignored, i.e. it is not stored in the corresponding
>> argument...hence the third value entered gets stored for b and for c
>> the output comes to garbage value....
>>
>> One beautiful application of such type of implementation is in finding
>> the sum of 2 variables without using + operator..:)
>>
>> On 6/23/11, Anika Jain <anika.jai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > int main()
>> > {
>> > int a,b, c;
>> > scanf("%d%*d%d",&a,&b,&c);
>> > printf("%d %d %d",a,b,c);
>> > }
>> >
>> > output: 25 35 garbage
>> >
>> > how is it happening??
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