Overloaded function with no contextual type information

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I had a search through the forum relating to this problem, and couldn't find anything, I'm using sprintf to write a string to twitter but the code wont compile due to the error in the title, below is the offending bit of code

sprintf(msg, "Tanktweet bootup time: %s:%s", hour, minute);

I want to ensure my tweets are unique hence the addition of the time, I actually wanted to add day, month and year too but thought I should run before I could walk :slight_smile:

If I use

sprintf(msg, "Tanktweet bootup time: %lu", now);

it works but tweets difficult to read number, "704185874" for example.

What am I missing I was trying to work out what the difference between %s %d and %lu are as I have seen them all used.

Thanks for the help

Steve

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That we are missing is the code and the error message!.

Mark

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The error is in the Title and this is the line of code causing it but I just managed to answer my own question :slight_smile:

The corrected code

sprintf(msg, "Tanktweet bootup time: %d:%d %d/%d/%d", hour(), minute(),day(), month(), year());

Thought I'd post the solution too :slight_smile:

Steve