I'm reading this document about the secret of printf in order to write my own printf and I found the 2nd ("%5.0f.", e) with e = 2.718281828 printf floating point format and what it produces confusing, why is there four spaces before the 3 and the decimal point?
I thought the output would be 3. with three spaces before the number 3 as the decimal point takes one space itself.
In the format string "%5.0f." there are two parts: a floating point specifier %5.0f and a literal .. The two are not attached in any way.
The first part prints 4 spaces followed by the number 2, and the second part just prints . independently of the first part.
