Description

printf is a well known function used in C programming to do formated printing. Usually it only takes the standard library to call it into a c program, and using it for simple strings or formatted specifiers that allow us to print diferent types of data. See man of printf to understand how printf works.

File	Format Specifier	Description
print_char.c	%c	prints characters.
print_string.c	%s	prints strings.
print_integer.c	%d	prints decimal numbers.
print_integer.c	%i	prints integers numbers.
print_binary.c	%b	prints binary from unsigned int.
print_unsigned.c	%u	prints an unsigned decimal number.
print_octal.c	%o	prints a number in octal (base8).
print_hex.c	%x	prints a number in hexadecimal (base 16).
print_HEX.c	%X	prints a number in uppercase hexadecimal.
print_address.c	%p	prints the address of a pointer.
print_reverse.c	%r	prints the reverse of a string.
print_percent.c	%	print character %.
print_special_char.c	%S	print an alternative to a non printable char.
print_ROT13.c	%R	prints a string in ROT13 base.

Prototype

int _printf(const char *format, ...);

Compilation

gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=gnu89 *.c

Contributors

• Nick Nyanjui

• Mitchel Gitau

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