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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-06-09 21:12:25 +0000
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.\"
.TH PRINTF 3 2007-11-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
-printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf \- formatted output conversion
+printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vsprintf,
+vsnprintf \- formatted output conversion
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <stdio.h>
.sp
@@ -133,7 +134,8 @@ the variable-length argument facilities of
are converted for output.
.SS "Return value"
Upon successful return, these functions return the number of characters
-printed (not including the trailing \(aq\e0\(aq used to end output to strings).
+printed (not including the
+trailing \(aq\e0\(aq used to end output to strings).
The functions
.BR snprintf ()
@@ -182,7 +184,8 @@ given, where each \(aq*\(aq and each conversion specifier asks for the next
argument (and it is an error if insufficiently many arguments are given).
One can also specify explicitly which argument is taken,
at each place where an argument is required, by writing "%m$" instead
-of \(aq%\(aq and "*m$" instead of \(aq*\(aq, where the decimal integer m denotes
+of \(aq%\(aq and "*m$" instead of \(aq*\(aq,
+where the decimal integer m denotes
the position in the argument list of the desired argument, indexed starting
from 1.
Thus,