vmshenoy

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• Jan 9th, 2007

 

    printf is the standart function in (c) programming language library for printing  formatted output.

eg

printf writes the resulting string to the standard output(remember, Awk has only one output file).

So, for example:

printf("%sn","jellotHarold!")

prints the string "Jello<tab>Harold!" to the standard output,followed by a newline.  Note that there's a tab character inthe middle.

Similarly,

X=sprintf("%sn","jellotHarold!")

assigns the string 'Jellow<tab>Harold!" to the variable X.

KishoreKNP

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• Dec 4th, 2009

 

printf and sprintf both will do the same work, but printf outputs on stdout(moniter) where as sprintf() printf the output in a string