Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:39:43 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> Subject: Re: c question: *printf'ing arrays Message-ID: <e71790db0907011739q59023141ve4209bcd83c04683@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090630225457.GR84786@elvis.mu.org> References: <20090630210238.GA33849@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <permail-2009063022060580e26a0b00003f4a-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <20090630225457.GR84786@elvis.mu.org>
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Alfred Perlstein<alfred@freebsd.org> wrote=
:
> Hey Alex,
>
> People frown on macros, but this could be a good one:
>
> #define SPRINT(f, fmt) \
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0do {\
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0for (_i =3D 0; _i < sizeof(f)/sizeof(f[0])=
; i++) \
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0printf(fmt, f[i]); \
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0}while(0)
>
> :D
>
> This should allow you to point to any _array_ and print each
> element of it using format "fmt".
>
> Example:
> SPRINT(Header->game_title, "%c");
Yes, it works, but using a loop to print a character array one char at
a time is terribly inefficient.
--=20
My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot
make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the
omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.
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