From 1b3f7d2103791ceee4a17b0f9f5860baa1512c7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chip Salzenberg Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:33:47 +1200 Subject: Refresh description of sprintf() --- pod/perl.pod | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'pod/perl.pod') 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() -- cgit v1.2.1