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| author | Oliver Kiddle <opk@users.sourceforge.net> | 2001-10-15 11:34:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Oliver Kiddle <opk@users.sourceforge.net> | 2001-10-15 11:34:27 +0000 |
| commit | 577ebe0b8ad4289221be0b4bc2bb03aea8477cfc (patch) | |
| tree | 7fa4504c7048b90f38a187009c1813bbcac144c1 /Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo | |
| parent | 0e6f26551664f4aa6fa5b4bb5ae0638930f8cf0f (diff) | |
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use arithmetic evaluation for numeric arguments to printf (16042)
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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo index 8d23fc175..91df46c06 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo @@ -732,8 +732,10 @@ recognised and `tt(%q)' can be used to quote the argument in such a way that allows it to be reused as shell input. With the numeric format specifiers, if the corresponding argument starts with a quote character, the numeric value of the following character is used as the number to -print. With `tt(%n)', the corresponding argument is taken as an identifier -which is created as an integer parameter. +print otherwise the argument is evaluated as an arithmetic expression. See +noderef(Arithmetic Evaluation) for a description of arithmetic +expressions. With `tt(%n)', the corresponding argument is taken as an +identifier which is created as an integer parameter. If arguments remain unused after formatting, the format string is reused until all arguments have been consumed. If more arguments are required by |