PUTS(3)                             Linux Programmer's Manual                             PUTS(3)



NAME
       fputc, fputs, putc, putchar, puts - output of characters and strings

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdio.h>

       int fputc(int c, FILE *stream);

       int fputs(const char *s, FILE *stream);

       int putc(int c, FILE *stream);

       int putchar(int c);

       int puts(const char *s);

DESCRIPTION
       fputc() writes the character c, cast to an unsigned char, to stream.

       fputs() writes the string s to stream, without its terminating null byte ('\0').

       putc()  is equivalent to fputc() except that it may be implemented as a macro which evalu-
       ates stream more than once.

       putchar(c); is equivalent to putc(c,stdout).

       puts() writes the string s and a trailing newline to stdout.

       Calls to the functions described here can be mixed with each other and with calls to other
       output functions from the stdio library for the same output stream.

       For nonlocking counterparts, see unlocked_stdio(3).

RETURN VALUE
       fputc(),  putc() and putchar() return the character written as an unsigned char cast to an
       int or EOF on error.

       puts() and fputs() return a nonnegative number on success, or EOF on error.

CONFORMING TO
       C89, C99.

BUGS
       It is not advisable to mix calls to output functions from the stdio library with low-level
       calls  to  write(2)  for  the  file descriptor associated with the same output stream; the
       results will be undefined and very probably not what you want.

SEE ALSO
       write(2),  ferror(3),  fopen(3),  fputwc(3),  fputws(3),  fseek(3),  fwrite(3),   gets(3),
       putwchar(3), scanf(3), unlocked_stdio(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the
       project,    and    information    about    reporting    bugs,    can    be    found     at
       http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU                                         2011-09-28                                    PUTS(3)