Printf

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  printf
       
           The standard function in the {C} programming
          language library for printing formatted output.
       
          The first argument is a format string which may contain


          ordinary characters which are just printed and "conversion
          specifications" - sequences beginning with '%' such as %6d
          which describe how the other arguments should be printed, in
          this case as a six-character decimal integer padded on the
          right with spaces.
       
          Possible conversion specifications are d, i or u (decimal
          integer), o ({octal}), x, X or p ({hexadecimal}), f
          ({floating-point}), e or E ({mantissa} and {exponent},
          e.g. 1.23E-22), g or G (f or e format as appropriate to the
          value printed), c (a single character), s (a string), %
          (i.e. %% - print a % character).  d, i, f, e, g are signed,
          the rest are unsigned.
       
          The variant {fprintf} prints to a given output stream and
          sprintf stores what would be printed in a string variable.
       
          {Unix manual page}: printf(3).
       
          (1996-12-08)