*printf Understanding

[Bill Denney]

I have an application where I want to output a file with indenting (the 
XML I was mentioning earlier).  I thought that I would just use the %*s 
feature to output a string that is the size of my indentation, but I found 
that code like

sprintf('%*s', 0, ' ')

returns a single space instead of an empty string as I expected.

Is that the way it's supposed to work?  If so, is there a better method 
for doing this?

Bill

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