On 04/15/2010 08:21 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote: > I saw a printf usage from a Linux forum's post: > > # printf "%d\n" "'a" > 97 > #
POSIX requires this behavior, so you could claim that this serves as documentation: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html "If the leading character is a single-quote or double-quote, the value shall be the numeric value in the underlying codeset of the character following the single-quote or double-quote." -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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