That's true, and it looks like %z should work in the OS. --dave On 11/13/06, Salvatore Domenick Desiano <sal@ri.cmu.edu> wrote:
True, though "portable" for Perl usually means "consitent". If it hangs, it's a bug.
I'll post a bug. Apple has fixed this on their version, so hopefully it won't be hard to track down.
-- Sal smile.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, David Glasser wrote:
o On 11/13/06, Salvatore Domenick Desiano <sal@ri.cmu.edu> wrote: o > Can somebody on Tiger run the following perl program and post whether o > you get to "C"? My installation hangs at "A". o o Mine hangs at A as well. On the other hand, according to "perldoc POSIX" o o If you want your code to be portable, your format ("fmt") o argument should use only the conversion specifiers defined by o the ANSI C standard (C89, to play safe). These are o "aAbBcdHIjmMpSUwWxXyYZ%". o o --dave o o -- o David Glasser | glasser@mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/ o o
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