Lesson 38 -C-Formatted Input and Output Function Types

The following format strings can be used to specify data to be printed or read using the printf or scanf functions, or any of their variants; fprintf, sprintf, fscanf or sscanf .

Note that though all can be used with the printf variants, some are not available for scanf.

FORMAT STRING DECRIPTION scanf()

Numeric Values
%d Deciaml integer y
%f Floating point deciamal(Real number) y
%lf Double (Long Real numder) y
%e Exponential representation n
%u Unsigned (positive) integer n
%x Hexadeciamal integer y
%o Octal integer y
%g Automatically Selects Shorter of %f and %e n

Character Types
%c Single character y
%s Character String, Defined as char * y