(octave.info)Other Output Conversions

---

Next: Formatted Input Prev: Floating-Point Conversions Up: C-Style I/O Functions

---

Enter node , (file) or (file)node

14.2.10 Other Output Conversions
--------------------------------

This section describes miscellaneous conversions for ‘printf’.

   The ‘%c’ conversion prints a single character.  The ‘-’ flag can be
used to specify left-justification in the field, but no other flags are
defined, and no precision or type modifier can be given.  For example:

     printf ("%c%c%c%c%c", "h", "e", "l", "l", "o");

prints ‘hello’.

   The ‘%s’ conversion prints a string.  The corresponding argument must
be a string.  A precision can be specified to indicate the maximum
number of characters to write; otherwise characters in the string up to
but not including the terminating null character are written to the
output stream.  The ‘-’ flag can be used to specify left-justification
in the field, but no other flags or type modifiers are defined for this
conversion.  For example:

     printf ("%3s%-6s", "no", "where");

prints ‘ nowhere ’ (note the leading and trailing spaces).