printf problem: "%1$s" not handled?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Apr-1998, Richard H. Gumpertz <rhg@cps.com> wrote:
> Christopher Lee <leec@mag.com>:
> > I'm having trouble on gnu-win32-b19.1 with the printf/sprintf functions.
> > Basically, positional parameters don't seem to be working:
...
> >   printf("<%1$s> <%2$s> <%3$s> <%4$s>\n","one","two","three","four");
...
> > Any way to fix this?  e.g. to replace printf/sprintf in B19.1 with ANSI
> > versions?
> 
> What is the '$' in your control strings?  I've never seen that in printf
> control strings.  Is that the source of your problem?  Is it some sort of
> local extension?

`$' for positional paramters in printf() format strings is not part of
the ANSI C standard, and if I recall correctly, it is not supported by
POSIX either.  It is however part of the X/Open standard, I think.

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