I am writing a program in C and I have several printf statements for debugging. Is there a way to change the precision for a HEX output on printf? Example. I have 0xFFF but I want it to print out 0x0FFF.
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I am writing a program in C and I have several printf statements for debugging. Is there a way to change the precision for a HEX output on printf? Example. I have 0xFFF but I want it to print out 0x0FFF.
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0means “pad with zeros”, the4means “at least four characters wide”.For integers, one doesn’t use the term “precision” (because integers are precise), but rather “field width” or something like that. Precision is the number of digits in scientific notation when printing floats.