source: trunk/essentials/dev-lang/perl/t/op/sprintf2.t

#!./perl -w

BEGIN {
    chdir 't' if -d 't';
    @INC = '../lib';
    require './test.pl';
}   

plan tests => 7 + 256;

is(
    sprintf("%.40g ",0.01),
    sprintf("%.40g", 0.01)." ",
    q(the sprintf "%.<number>g" optimization)
);
is(
    sprintf("%.40f ",0.01),
    sprintf("%.40f", 0.01)." ",
    q(the sprintf "%.<number>f" optimization)
);
{
        chop(my $utf8_format = "%-3s\x{100}");
        is(
                sprintf($utf8_format, "\xe4"),
                "\xe4  ",
                q(width calculation under utf8 upgrade)
        );
}

# Used to mangle PL_sv_undef
fresh_perl_is(
    'print sprintf "xxx%n\n"; print undef',
    'Modification of a read-only value attempted at - line 1.',
    { switches => [ '-w' ] },
    q(%n should not be able to modify read-only constants),
);

# check %NNN$ for range bounds, especially negative 2's complement

{
    my ($warn, $bad) = (0,0);
    local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {
        if ($_[0] =~ /uninitialized/) {
            $warn++
        }
        else {
            $bad++
        }
    };
    my $result = sprintf join('', map("%$_\$s%" . ~$_ . '$s', 1..20)),
        qw(a b c d);
    is($result, "abcd", "only four valid values");
    is($warn, 36, "expected warnings");
    is($bad,   0, "unexpected warnings");
}

{
    foreach my $ord (0 .. 255) {
        my $bad = 0;
        local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {
            unless ($_[0] =~ /^Invalid conversion in sprintf/ ||
                    $_[0] =~ /^Use of uninitialized value in sprintf/) {
                warn $_[0];
                $bad++;
            }
        };
        my $r = eval {sprintf '%v' . chr $ord};
        is ($bad, 0, "pattern '%v' . chr $ord");
    }
}