what dose printf("%5d\n",3); do?

sammy

dose it print the number 3 five times or

dose it print the number 5 three times

also what dose printf("%d\n",3,5); do?

anonymous

D Shah's answer is incorrect.

printf("%5d\n",3); will print the number 3 as a decimal number, using 5 positions in the output. In other words, if the number that you're printing (3 in this case) consists of less than 5 digits, the digits that make up the number will be padded (at the beginning) using spaces.

To get D Shah's output, you'd need to write this:

printf("%05d\n",3);

Note the zero before the digit 5.

d-shah

printf(%5d\n",3) will print "00003" (%5d = number in decimal and in 5 digits)

printf(%d\n",3,5) will print "3" only.