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From: Lawrence Kirby <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Easiest way to center a string?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 23:50:30 GMT
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           [e-mail] "The Amorphous Mass" writes:

>On 22 Feb 1996, Simon Hosie wrote:
>
>> Simon Hosie:
>> > printf("%*s\n", (strlen(String - LineLen) / 2, String);
>> Simon Hosie:
>> >   Sorry, make that:
>> > printf("%*s\n", (strlen(String + LineLen)) / 2, String);
>>
>>   If this one is wrong I'm not correcting myself again, I promise (I haven't
>> been getting enough sleep, ok?)..
>>
>> printf("%*s\n", (strlen(String) + LineLen) / 2, String);
>
>  Since I have managed to make a complete fool out of myself on this
>thread previously (thanks to Tanmoy and Lawrence for being so indulgent,

Indulgent? Public humiliation is usually far more effective than
simple flaming! ;-)

>and my apologies to Simon for being completely wrong in my critique), I will
>think this response through _very_ carefully.  As Lawrence pointed out,
>you need to cast that expression to int, because printf() expects an int
>and not a size_t (which might not fit into an int).  So use
>
>   printf("*s\n", (int)((strlen(String) + LineLen) / 2), String);

            ^
I think a % here would help! :-))

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