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Re: [SPAM DETECT] Re: Replcaing printf by print

Xavier Noria

2005-07-24, 8:29 pm

On Jul 22, 2005, at 14:00, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:

> On Jul 22, pradeep.goel@wipro.com said:
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> It probably doesn't have a noticeable difference unless you compare
> the running of it many, MANY times. But using printf() needlessly
> is silly, and in some cases, dangerous. If you have a % sign in
> your string, printf will expect an argument to go with it.

Just for the record, another formal difference is that printf does
not add $\, which might not be a problem anyway.

I second the remark of japhy, be specific, use print when you mean
print.

-- fxn

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