Re^4: "percent task completed progress bar" in cli interface, how?

If you use the warnings pragma you'll find that the original code produces the following error

Invalid conversion in sprintf: "%)" at test.pl line 16.

The sprintf function documentation specifies that a percent sign should be formatted '%%'. I'm not sure why excluding the extra '%' doesn't count as a syntax error.

From what I can tell the warning has been emitted via warnings since around 5.8.0. FYI I'm using 5.8.7 from Ubuntu 6.06 with the patch "SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CVE-2005-3962." This patch is applied by either the Debian team or Ubuntu team (not sure which one). I think the patch originated from http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/NWCLARK/sprintf-5.8.7.patch.

So you might not be wrong per-se but sprintf in versions of Perl without this patch certainly don't do what the manual says it should.

Cheers,
Matt

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Re^5: "percent task completed progress bar" in cli interface, how? by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 21, 2006 at 12:33 UTC
Thanks, I should have been using strict and warnings. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum	[reply]