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printf Flags
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The flags determine justification of output and control the
printing of signs, blanks, decimal points, and octal and
hexadecimal prefixes, as shown in the list below. More than one
flag can appear in a format specification.
Flag: See:
Justification ◄- (hyphen)►
Signs (+ and -) ◄+ (plus)►
Leading zeros ◄0 (zero)►
Leading blanks ◄' ' (blank)►
Radix indicators (0x, etc.) ◄# (pound sign)►
Decimal points, ◄# (pound sign)►
trailing zeros, etc.
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