Is this possible with printf?

Question

I understand that, with an oversize string, you can print out the first few characters with:

printf(".5s\n",string);

and with an undersize string, you can pad it with space:

printf("% 5s\n",string);

Is there a way to achieve both of these at once? i.e. pad it with 0 or space if it's short, and truncate it if it's long?

Answer 1

Yes, you can just combine it to this:

printf("%5.5s\n", string);

So if your string is 1, the output is:

    1
//^ 4 Spaces here

And if your string is 123456, the output is:

12345
   //^ 6 doesn't get displayed

Also for more information about printf() and as a reference see this link: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/printf/