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"Robbie Hatley" <> wrote in message
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> Perhaps I'm making some newbie, bonehead mistake here, but
> I can't see what it is. I wrote a simple program which
> writes a table of celsius-to-fahrenheit conversions.
> I've included the entire program at the bottom of this post
> for reference, but the guts of the program are the following
> lines:
>
> printf(" Fahr Cels\n");
>
> for (Fahr = FahrMin; Fahr <= FahrMax; Fahr += FahrInc)
> {
> Cels = (((Fahr-32)*100.0)/180.0);
> printf("%10.3f %10.3f\n", Fahr, Cels);
> }
>
> When I run "CelsFahr 40 41 0.2, I expected it to print:
>
> Cels Fahr
> 40.000 104.000
> 40.200 104.360
> 40.400 104.720
> 40.600 105.080
> 40.800 105.440
>
> but what it *actually* prints is:
>
> Cels Fahr
> 40.000 104.000
>
> 40.200 104.360
>
> 40.400 104.720
>
> 40.600 105.080
>
> 40.800 105.440
>
> Why the extra blank lines? printf() doesn't automatically
> print a newline, does it? Don't you have to put those in
> manually? So I don't see why I'm getting extra blank lines.
> Am I missing something obvious?

What happens when you leave out the "\n"?

What about just doing printf ("abc\ndef\n"); ?

Or puts("abc"); puts("def"); ?

(I'm assuming the display width is more than about 24 characters.)
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Bartc

"Robbie Hatley" <> wrote in message
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> "bartc" wrote:
>
>> What happens when you leave out the "\n"?
>>
>> What about just doing printf ("abc\ndef\n"); ?
>>
>> Or puts("abc"); puts("def"); ?

> Ok, I'll test those. Here's a simple program:

> printf("abcd");
> printf("efgh");
> printf("ijkl");
....
> OUTPUT:
>
> abcdefghijkl
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> abc
> def
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> abc
> def
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> printf() isn't automatically inserting newlines.
> I didn't think it would, as other programs I've written
> and compiled on same compiler don't put them in.

OK, so printf() works as it should. So now, starting either with a simple,
working printf and adding to it, or the other way, try and see where the
problem creeps in.

These are suggestions (or perhaps put all of them in the loop; after which
one is there an extra newline?):

printf("<>\n");
printf("<%d>\n", (int)Fahr);
printf("<%10d>\n", (int)Fahr);
printf("<%10.3f>\n", Fahr);
printf("<%10.3f %10.3f>\n", Fahr, Cels);

Then that might give a clue as to what's causing the problem (as I can't
recreate it). Maybe a hidden control character in the format string (I
didn't notice one)?

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Bartc