pack_fputs(3alleg4)

✨ pack_fputs — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is the Allegro game programming library manual page for pack_fputs, and honestly? she's a little icon. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

pack_fputs — writes a string to the stream. Part of the Allegro game programming library, no cap. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int pack_fputs(const char *p, PACKFILE *f);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, this function writes a string to the stream f. Simple. Elegant. Main character energy. ✨

But here's the tea, bestie: the input string gets converted from the current text encoding format to UTF-8 before it gets written. So it's not just a raw dump, it's a whole glow-up on the way out. 💖

And then there's the newline situation — newline characters are written as \r\n on DOS and Windows platforms. Yeah. That's a thing it does, unprompted, like a friend who adds extra emoji to your texts. 🙈

If you do not want that behaviour? Totally valid. Just use pack_fwrite() and/or pack_putc() instead. 🫶

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

• Returns zero on success 💚
• Returns a negative number on error 💀

That's it. That's the whole vibe check.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• pack_fopen(3alleg4)
• pack_fopen_chunk(3alleg4)
• pack_fwrite(3alleg4)
• pack_putc(3alleg4)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀✨ this one lives in the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3, and it's dated right there next to pack_fputs(3alleg4) — so go forth, write those strings, convert those encodings, and remember: \r\n on DOS and Windows, periodt. 💅🌸🦋