Re: Why does string.format() limit width to two digits?

[Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas@...>]

On 19.01.2023 at 08:05 bil til wrote:

> Am Mi., 18. Jan. 2023 um 22:27 Uhr schrieb Andreas Falkenhahn
> <andreas@falkenhahn.com>:

>> Personally not but I think for reasons of portability it would be
>> nice if Lua's string.format() behaved the same as the C specification
>> (where possible). As I said, I noticed this because some code I was
>> porting from C used more than two digits and I was surprised that it
>> failed with Lua.

> Can you give a C code example?

See here:
https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/blob/master/demos/tui.c#L75 

In that code, "length" is often >= 100, resulting in a three digit width.

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