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| author | Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> | 1997-04-29 16:33:47 +1200 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-05-08 00:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | 1b3f7d2103791ceee4a17b0f9f5860baa1512c7a (patch) | |
| tree | 0cae7e7e45fe47bd5e64fd647df890ff4fbbe70b /pod/perl.pod | |
| parent | 28d1fb14ad09326ebbecb0b9fbd709bed7f0603b (diff) | |
| download | perl-1b3f7d2103791ceee4a17b0f9f5860baa1512c7a.tar.gz | |
Refresh description of sprintf()
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index c7b84520df..3036f35b21 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ switch? The B<-w> switch is not mandatory. Perl is at the mercy of your machine's definitions of various -operations such as type casting, atof(), and sprintf(). The latter -can even trigger a core dump when passed ludicrous input values. +operations such as type casting, atof(), and floating-point +output with sprintf(). If your stdio requires a seek or eof between reads and writes on a particular stream, so does Perl. (This doesn't apply to sysread() |