Tom Lane wrote:
> That advice is, if not outright wrong, at least incredibly
> short-sighted. The method breaks the instant you have any additional
> values to print. For example, this ain't gonna work:
>
> printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %lu bytes",
> "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
> n, total_bytes);
I think it should use the %2$s style specifier in that case. This
should work:
> printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %2$lu bytes",
> "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
> n, total_bytes);
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