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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Print one's place for 1 to N times, ksh Perl whatever? Post 302792937 by KmJohnson on Thursday 11th of April 2013 11:17:39 AM
Old 04-11-2013
Print one's place for 1 to N times, ksh Perl whatever?

Hello all,
I would like to create a for loop or whatever is quick that will print the one’s place of a number for 1-N times
say for example a printed page formatting is 132 characters wide,
I would like a single line

123456789012345678901234567890... ...012

That is 132 characters long. I am putting this in a simple print test program and want the recipient to see at a glance that the printing is not getting truncated for any reason.


I see in a similar thread a slick way to print a single character N times

In these below cases if one * was missing (due to printer/lp miss configuration) in a string of 132 your eye could miss it easily.. TIA. -KJ


nawk 'BEGIN{$1000=OFS="*";print}' < /dev/null
perl -le 'print "*" x 1000'
printf "%01000d"|tr "0" "*"

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...cters-ksh.html

Last edited by KmJohnson; 04-11-2013 at 12:24 PM..
 

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extract_font_range(3alleg4)					  Allegro manual				       extract_font_range(3alleg4)

NAME
extract_font_range - Extracts a range of characters from a font. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> FONT *extract_font_range(FONT *f, int begin, int end) DESCRIPTION
This function extracts a character range from a font and returns a new font that contains only the range of characters selected by this function. You can pass -1 for either the lower or upper bound if you want to select all characters from the start or to the end of the font. Example: FONT *myfont; FONT *capitals; FONT *fontcopy; ... /* Create a font of only capital letters */ capitals = extract_font_range(myfont, 'A', 'Z'); /* Create a copy of the font */ fontcopy = extract_font_range(myfont, -1, -1); ... destroy_font(capitals); destroy_font(fontcopy); RETURN VALUE
Returns a pointer to the new font or NULL on error. Remember that you are responsible for destroying the font when you are finished with it to avoid memory leaks. SEE ALSO
get_font_range_begin(3alleg4), get_font_range_end(3alleg4), merge_fonts(3alleg4), transpose_font(3alleg4), exfont(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 extract_font_range(3alleg4)
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