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use of '\f' ?
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Ken Ng
Greenhorn
Joined: Feb 14, 2004
Posts: 26
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hi all,
Can anybody explain what exactly is '\f' (form feed).
What practical situations do we use it?
How to use it? Care to give some examples
Thank for the ans.
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Howard Kushner
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Joined: Sep 19, 2003
Posts: 361
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Sure. When used in a string that will be directed to a printer, it causes the succeeding output to begin on a new page, so it is like a page eject. It instructs the printer to begin the next output on a new page even if the previous page is not yet completely full. Does that help.?
For example:
"ABC\nDEF\nGHI\fXYZ"
will print ABC on the first line, DEF one the second line, GHI on the third line, and XYZ at the top of the next page.
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ABC
DEF
GHI
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XYZ
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