centos man page for sprintf

Query: sprintf

OS: centos

Section: 9

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SPRINTF(9)						     Basic C Library Functions							SPRINTF(9)

NAME
sprintf - Format a string and place it in a buffer
SYNOPSIS
int sprintf(char * buf, const char * fmt, ...);
ARGUMENTS
buf The buffer to place the result into fmt The format string to use @...: Arguments for the format string ... variable arguments
DESCRIPTION
The function returns the number of characters written into buf. Use snprintf or scnprintf in order to avoid buffer overflows. See the vsnprintf documentation for format string extensions over C99.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 SPRINTF(9)
Related Man Pages
vsnprintf(9) - suse
ssp(3) - netbsd
vsprintf(3) - osf1
vsnprintf(3) - osf1
snprintf(9f) - sunos
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