I am not sure why you are not seeing the last dot. 

Okay, so when you remove the first dot, printf prints
the complete string which would have a newline
character (\n) as it's 25th element so the dot should
appear on the next line.

-Sumit

--- _z33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> sumit kalra wrote:
> > Well, the first dot along with the 24 (%.24s) 
> > specifies to printf to print only 24 characters of
> the
> > string.
> > 
> > Second dot is a full stop after the string. :-)
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> But in that case when you remove the first dot you
> should be able to see 
> the second dot for sure, right? But the moment I
> remove the first dot, 
> the second dot disappears from the output.
> 
> 
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