Comment #0 by moonlightsentinel — 2022-04-15T22:12:41Z
Because it's most likely a typo. The common case is %.*s to print a slice passed as length + ptr.
%*.s is equivalent to %*.0s and specifies "Print zero characters from the string padded to a runtime width"
Comment #1 by robert.schadek — 2024-12-13T19:22:17Z