Re: [Vala] printing int64 value to standard output

[Aaron <aaron fosslib net>]

Just use string templates:

stdout.printf (@"$ts\n");

String templates will always give you the proper format.

Aaron

Quoting Sam Wilson <tecywiz121 hotmail com>:

> On 12-05-15 06:54 AM, pancake wrote:
> > %lld is not portable. your code will not work on windows.
> >
> > the portable way is:
> >
> > void main() {
> > uint64 ts = 123;
> > stdout.printf ("%"+uint64.FORMAT_MODIFIER;+"d\n", ts);
> > }
>
> That just looks horrible... Couldn't Vala just compile %lld into the  
> proper format on each platform?
>
> Sam