What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?

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What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?..

Answer / nelson

The only difference between sprintf() and printf() is that
sprintf() writes data into a character array, while printf
() writes data to standard output device.

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What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?..

Answer / guest

prinf will print the data on to the screen.
sprintf will print the data to a buffer.

basically sprintf is used for formatting the output.

printf("%s",google);
char *p;
sprintf(p,"%s",google);

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What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?..

Answer / prits

printf : Print formatted data to stdout (function)
sprintf:writes its results to a string instead of stdout

#include <stdio.h>

int main ()
{
char buffer [50];
int n, a=5, b=3;
n=sprintf (buffer, "%d plus %d is %d", a, b, a+b);
printf ("[%s] is a %d char long string\n",buffer,n);
return 0;
}

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What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?..

Answer / namitha

printf is used to write the data in its format.
sprintf is used to write formatted data to string.

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What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?..

Answer / praveen

printf writes the data to console
sprintf writes the data to an array

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What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?..

Answer / lavanya

printf funtion is to write the output to stdout.
sprintf function is to store romatted input output on a
string buffer

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What is the Difference between "printf" and "sprintf"?..

Answer / ramanji

printf() is used to send the output to the output consoled
device i.e,monitor

and the sprintf() is send the output to the specified file
that will be given in the parameters

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