I read the documentation and it says that a long is %li but the print out comes back as -2147024891. What gives?
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I read the documentation and it says that a long is %li but the print out comes back as -2147024891. What gives?
You didn’t even provide which number you wanted to print, but I guess you’ve stumbled over the difference between signed and unsigned printing.
Use
%luforunsigned longnumbers, and%ldor%liforsigned longnumbers.The MSDN has good documentation on printf specifiers. For 64-bit values (like
long long, for example), you should use the macros in<inttypes.h>.