fputc, fputs, putc, putchar, puts - output of characters and strings
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ fputc(), fputs(), putc(), putchar(), puts() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Bugs
It is not advisable to mix calls to output functions from the stdio library with low-level calls to
write(2) for the file descriptor associated with the same output stream; the results will be undefined
and very probably not what you want.
Description
fputc() writes the character c, cast to an unsignedchar, to stream.
putc() is equivalent to fputc() except that it may be implemented as a macro which evaluates stream more
than once.
putchar(c) is equivalent to putc(c,stdout).
fputs() writes the string s to stream, without its terminating null byte ('\0').
puts() writes the string s and a trailing newline to stdout.
Calls to the functions described here can be mixed with each other and with calls to other output
functions from the stdio library for the same output stream.
For nonlocking counterparts, see unlocked_stdio(3).
History
POSIX.1-2001, C89, C99.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
fputc, fputs, putc, putchar, puts - output of characters and strings
Return Value
fputc(), putc(), and putchar() return the character written as an unsignedchar cast to an int or EOF on
error.
puts() and fputs() return a nonnegative number on success, or EOF on error.
See Also
write(2), ferror(3), fgets(3), fopen(3), fputwc(3), fputws(3), fseek(3), fwrite(3), putwchar(3), scanf(3), unlocked_stdio(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-06-15 puts(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<stdio.h>intfputc(intc,FILE*stream);intputc(intc,FILE*stream);intputchar(intc);intfputs(constchar*restricts,FILE*restrictstream);intputs(constchar*s);