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in reply to Re^2: Data::Dumper and printf
in thread Data::Dumper and printf

one confusing thing is that printf and sprintf have different prototypes!

  DB<108> prototype "CORE::sprintf"
 => "\$\@"
 
  DB<109> prototype "CORE::printf"
 => undef

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so sprintf @array will evaluate the array in scalar context, such that now the number of elements will be interpreted as format string...

Cheers Rolf

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