question regarding "v" flag of printf

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Dear Monks,

I have a question regarding the "v" flag for "printf".

printf "<%vd>","123";

I thought the result should be "<1.2.3>", but instead it was "<49.50.51>".

As it was described, "This flag tells Perl to interpret the supplied string as a vector of integers, one for each character in the string. Perl applies the format to each integer in turn, then joins the resulting strings with a separator (a dot . by default)"

I assume "123" will be divided as vector of ("1","2","3"), but it became ("49","50","51").

I am confused!

in addition if I want printf to output result of "100 200 300" of string "100200300" what should I do?

Thanks you!