SNPRINTF(3P)

✨ SNPRINTF(3P) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖 this one's from Issue 3P, and it's literally just a little doorway into fprintf(). no cap.

🫶 PROLOG

so like, real talk: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or honestly the interface may not even be implemented on Linux at all. 💀 vibe check accordingly.

🌸 NAME

snprintf — print formatted output ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>

int snprintf(char *restrict s, size_t n,
    const char *restrict format, ...);

🦋 DESCRIPTION

Refer to fprintf().

that's it. that's the whole description. she's short but she's iconic. 💅

👑 COPYRIGHT

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

fr fr, if something looks busted here, it's probably a glow-up gone wrong during the source-to-manpage conversion, not the actual standard. report it at that second link. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈💖 this one's brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and titled SNPRINTF(3P) — go forth and format responsibly, mwah 💅✨🎀