07-02-2008
Why do you expect it to work? In one instance you are setting the data variable to a string containing one character "A". In the other instance you are setting data to an integer i.e. 10.
In addition the printf format string provided by you (%02s) is invalid for ksh or /bin/printf.
From the printf(1) man page
Quote:
0
The value should be zero padded. For d, i, o, u, x, X, a, A, e, E, f, F, g, and G conversions, the converted value is padded on the left with zeros rather than blanks. If the 0 and - flags both appear, the 0 flag is ignored. If a precision is given with a numeric conversion (d, i, o, u, x, and X), the 0 flag is ignored. For other conversions, the behavior is undefined.
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