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From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
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	Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Subject: Re: c question: *printf'ing arrays
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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.