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I have found a possible bug in the field adjustment operators of the stream
class.  The following program:

#include <iostream.h>

main()
{
	cout.width(4);
	cout << '(' << -12 << ")\n";

	cout.width(4);
	cout.setf(ios::left, ios::adjustfield);
	cout << '(' << -12 << ")\n";

	cout.width(4);
	cout.setf(ios::internal, ios::adjustfield);
	cout << '(' << -12 << ")\n";
}

Produces:
   (-12)
(   -12)
   (-12)

According to page 343 of Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language", 2nd
edition it should produce:
( -12)
(-12 )
(- 12)

The width function should apply to the next numeric or string output
operation, not to characters.  Now, to me, it would seem that symmetric
operation of the field adjustments are desirable.  Is this the intent
of the libg++ versions?
Craig Ruff      	NCAR			cruff@ncar.ucar.edu
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