Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 12/12/2022 02:11, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> Field widths are awkward to use because you have to write them as >> decimal constants _inside the format string_… > > It's a shame that scanf's maximum field width couldn't be specified > using an integer parameter in the same was as printf's minimum field > width, but the '*' flag was already taken! Yup. I suppose we could make up another flag … ‘@’ isn’t used for anything … zw
