<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2019, at 3:32 PM, Thomas Braun <<a href="mailto:thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de" class="">thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I'm talking about the following paragraph in printf's help page:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div>Well that is a stupid library, I wonder where wavemetrics found that one? Not stdc library, I wonder if it is a legacy limitation that could be removed trivially. But then again, using printf for strings is sort of redundant. Just concatenate with a “+”.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At some point maintaining the Igor programming language is going to be a bit more trouble than it is worth. Switching to lua, python or even my favorite Swift might be a future direction?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Scott</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>