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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 23:19:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:41:40 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Sprintf doesn't take a pointer to a struct.

Equally, sprintf does not need to take all the arguments at once. You can 
build the output string piece by piece.