From: NagaChaitanya Vellanki <me@...>
Date: 2011-12-15T12:28:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41667] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5763] sprintf not throwing error for wrong number of arguments


Issue #5763 has been updated by NagaChaitanya Vellanki.


Shyouhei Urabe wrote:
> > check for similar behaviour of sprintf in a c program
> 
> This is a GCCism, not a universal C behaviour.  If you think sprintf should warn because C does, that is a false assertion.

I encountered this issue today, i was missing a format specifier in my code and it took sometime to figure it out. It would be nice if there was a warning/error this case.
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Bug #5763: sprintf not throwing error for wrong number of arguments
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5763

Author: NagaChaitanya Vellanki
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 
ruby -v: -


sprintf should raise error when the number of arguments does not match the number of format specifiers

sprintf with correct number of format specifiers, arguments
>> sprintf('%s', 'hello')
=> "hello"

sprintf with a single format specifier and two arguments
>> sprintf('%s', 'hello', 'world!')
=> "hello"

sprintf with three format specifiers and two arguments
>> sprintf('%s-%s-%s', 'hello', 'world!')
ArgumentError: too few arguments
        from (irb):3:in `sprintf'
        from (irb):3
        from /home/chaitanyav/development/tools_64/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'



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