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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index cef469fb32..fd724a1704 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4414,6 +4414,12 @@ numbers, and even then only the standard modifiers are allowed). As a result, any non-standard extensions in your local C<sprintf> are not available from Perl. +Unlike C<printf>, C<sprintf> does not do what you probably mean when you +pass it an array as your first argument. The array is given scalar context, +and instead of using the 0th element of the array as the format, Perl will +use the count of elements in the array as the format, which is almost never +useful. + Perl's C<sprintf> permits the following universally-known conversions: %% a percent sign |