C programming stdio.h function - int vprintf(const char *format, va_list arg)
The vprintf()
function in the stdio.h
library of C programming language is used to print the formatted output on the standard output stream stdout
. It takes a variable-length argument list as input that is created by the va_start()
and va_arg()
functions from the stdarg.h
library.
The function has the following syntax:
rt refeo:theitroad.comint vprintf(const char *format, va_list arg);
Here, format
is a character string that contains the format control string, and arg
is the variable-length argument list created by va_start()
and va_arg()
functions.
The vprintf()
function works similar to the printf()
function, but it takes a va_list
argument instead of a variable number of arguments. It reads the format string and the corresponding arguments from the argument list and writes the formatted output to the standard output stream stdout
. The function returns the number of characters printed on success, and a negative value on failure.
Here's an example that demonstrates the use of the vprintf()
function:
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdarg.h> int main() { char *name = "John"; int age = 25; float salary = 2500.50; printf("Details of employee: \n"); vprintf("Name: %s, Age: %d, Salary: %f\n", va_arg, name, age, salary); return 0; }
In this example, the vprintf()
function is used to print the details of an employee. The va_arg
is the variable-length argument list created using the va_start()
and va_arg()
functions. The format string "Name: %s, Age: %d, Salary: %f\n" contains three format specifiers, which correspond to the three arguments in the variable-length argument list. The output of this program will be:
Details of employee: Name: John, Age: 25, Salary: 2500.500000