At 01.09 05/10/98 , you wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Chuck Carson wrote:
>
>>I am reting to figure out what this does, I have 4 books on C in which
>>none of them discuss this:
>>
>>sprintf(buf + strlen(buf), "blah........
>
>It's basically a strcatprintf().
>
>And no that function doesn't exist, I'm just illustrating what it does. :)
>
I think it was introduced in place of using
sprintf(buf, "%sThis is another line, number %d\r\n", buf, number);
The command above will work on linux, but not on Borland compiler, because
the latter cleans buf before writing to it. IE sprintf behaviour is
undefined when writing a string over itself.
Carlo Mocci - mocci@tin.it
Kabir
Coder of Dalila MUD
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