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IT Functionality 9-14

The conversion characters and their meaning are shown below. If the character

after the “%” is not conversion character, the behavior is undefined.

Charac-

ter

Argument

Type

Converted To

d, i Byte,Short Signed Decimal Notation

o Byte,Short Unsigned Octal Notation (without a leading

zero)

x,X Byte,Short Unsigned hexadecimal notation (without a lead-

ing 0x or 0X)

u Byte,Short Unsigned decimal notation

c Byte,Short Single character, after conversion to unsigned

char

s char * Characters from the string are printed until a “\0”

is reached or until the number of characters indi-

cated by the precision have been printed

f Long Decimal notation of the form [-] m.dddddde+ -xx

or [-]m.ddddddE+-xx where the number of d’s is

specified by the precision. The default precision

is 6; a precision of 0 suppresses the decimal

point.

e,E Long Decimal notation of the form [-] m.dddddde+ -xx

or [-]m.ddddddE+-xx where the number of d’s is

specified by the precision. The default precision

is 6; a precision of 0 suppresses the decimal

point.

g,G Long “%e” or “%E” is used if the exponent is less than

-4 or greater than or equal to the precision; other-

wise “%f” is used. Trailing zeroes and trailing

decimal point are not printed.

%Print a “%”

Table 9-2 printf Conversion Characters