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The Question is: I have several reports written in C that use the setlocale() function to setup formated printing of numbers (99,999,999.99). The problem that I am having is that when a number is negative and is 3,6 or 9 digits in length is will print in the following fo rmat -,999.99 or -,999,999.00. Is there any way to prevent the comma from printing after the sign or to use a different locale. Compaq C version - v6.0-001 locale used - EN_US_ISO8859-1.LOCALE;1 The Answer is :
This appears to be a bug within the printf family of functions, a
bug which adversely effects formatting negative numbers by the %d
and %i directives when locale-specific thousands' grouping character
is requested (by specifying apostrophe flag character on the format
directive).
As the %f directive does not seem to be affected by the bug, the
use %'f direcive instead of %'d or %'i would be the most obvious
workaround, prior to the availability of a fix.
The bug will be fixed in a future release of the Compaq C Run-Time
Library on OpenVMS.
Thank you for reporting this.
$ cc/ver
Compaq C V6.2-005 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1H1
$ run x.exe
%f directive: -999.99
%d directive: -,999
%i directive: -,999
%f directive: -999,999.99
%d directive: -,999,999
%i directive: -,999,999
%f directive: -999,999,999.99
%d directive: -,999,999,999
%i directive: -,999,999,999
x.c
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#include [stdio.h]
#include [locale.h]
main()
if ( !setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.ISO8859-1") )
perror("setlocale");
/* three digits */
printf("%%f directive: %'.2f\n", -999.99);
printf("%%d directive: %'d\n", -999);
printf("%%i directive: %'i\n\n", -999);
/* six digits */
printf("%%f directive: %'.2f\n", -999999.99);
printf("%%d directive: %'d\n", -999999);
printf("%%i directive: %'i\n\n", -999999);
/* nine digits */
printf("%%f directive: %'.2f\n", -999999999.99);
printf("%%d directive: %'d\n", -999999999);
printf("%%i directive: %'i\n", -999999999);
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