VPRINTF(3S)

NAME

vprintf, vfprintf, vsprintf − print formatted output of a varargs argument list

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>
#include <varargs.h>

int vprintf (format, ap)
char ∗format;
va_list ap;

int vfprintf (stream, format, ap)
FILE ∗stream;
char ∗format;
va_list ap;

int vsprintf (s, format, ap)
char ∗s, ∗format;
va_list ap;

HP-UX COMPATIBILITY

Level: HP-UX/RUN ONLY

Origin: System V

DESCRIPTION

vprintf, vfprintf, and vsprintf are the same as printf, fprintf, and sprintf respectively, except that instead of being called with a variable number of arguments, they are called with an argument list as defined by varargs(5).

EXAMPLE

The following demonstrates how vfprintf could be used to write an error routine.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <varargs.h>
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.
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/∗
∗error should be called like
∗error(function_name, format, arg1, arg2...);
∗/
/∗VARARGS0∗/
void
error(va_alist)
/∗ Note that the function_name and format arguments cannot be
∗ separately declared because of the definition of varargs.
∗/
va_dcl
{
va_list args;
char ∗fmt;
va_start(args);
/∗ print out name of function causing error ∗/
(void)fprintf(stderr, "ERROR in %s: ", va_arg(args, char ∗));
fmt = va_arg(args, char ∗);
/∗ print out remainder of message ∗/
(void)vfprintf(stderr, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
(void)abort( );
}

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