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puts

Write a character string to stdout.

Compatibility:

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32


Prototype:
#include <stdio.h>
int puts(const char *s);
Parameters:

Parameters for this facility are:

s  
const char *  
The string written to stdout  

Remarks:

The puts() function writes a character string array to stdout, stopping at, but not including the terminating null character. The function also appends a newline ('\n') to the output.

Return:

puts() returns zero if successful and returns a nonzero value if it fails.

See Also:

"Wide Character and Byte Character Stream Orientation"

"fputs"

Example of puts() usage.:
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	static char s[] = "car bus metro werks";
	int i;

	// output the string 10 times
	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
		puts(s);

	return 0;
}

Output:
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks
car bus metro werks


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