My guess is that it's because you can't (portably) guarantee the number
of characters you will use, so you may end up writing past the end of
your string.
Herbert
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Aleksandar Donev
> Sent: 28 September 2004 16:19
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> Subject: Writing to string buffer
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there a technical reason behind not allowing list-directed
> IO (* instead of explicit format) when writing to a string
> buffer (as opposed to an external file)?
>
> Thanks,
> Aleks
>
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