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In article <4i98fl$8ml@solutions.solon.com>,
 <baynes@ukpsshp1.serigate.philips.nl> wrote:
>Michael J Zehr (tada@athena.mit.edu) wrote:

[snip]

>: This is the main question I'm interested, but as a followup, if these
>: always result in the same output, why is the 'h' modifier defined in the
>: first place?
>
>Probably so you can use the same format string with scanf.

AVOID THIS ASSUMPTION!!!

It's a common trap, and fails with floating point numbers.

"%f" ==> output a double (*printf)
"%f" ==> input a float (*scanf)

IMHO, the format strings *should* have been designed so that
the same one can be used to read back something written, but
this is not the case.  Sorry, they didn't ask me!  :-)

Cheers,
Stan.
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