No the second dot does NOT disappear... Watch your output closely.
You should also get yourself a linux distribution ( www.knoppix.org
has bootable CD or DVD images ). and try the command 'man ctime'
(the reason why I say that is that is that 'PAUSE' is a DOS command)
The %.24s says "Only print the first 24 characters of the output
from 'ctime'. You see, the output from ctime includes a newline as
the last (25th) character of it's output, so %.24s chops off the output
just before the newline.
I.e. the resultint output is <DATE>\n.\n
The trailing dot is now on the next line.
_z33 wrote:
sumit kalra wrote:
Well, the first dot along with the 24 (%.24s) specifies to printf to
print only 24 characters of the
string.
Second dot is a full stop after the string. :-)
Thanks for the info.
But in that case when you remove the first dot you should be able to
see the second dot for sure, right? But the moment I remove the first
dot, the second dot disappears from the output.
printf("It's %.24s.\n", ctime(&now));
system ("PAUSE");
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