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.TH PUTS 3  2011-09-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
fputc, fputs, putc, putchar, puts \- output of characters and strings
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <stdio.h>
.sp
.BI "int fputc(int " c ", FILE *" stream );

.BI "int fputs(const char *" "s" ", FILE *" "stream" );

.BI "int putc(int " c ", FILE *" stream );

.BI "int putchar(int " c );

.BI "int puts(const char *" "s" );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR fputc ()
writes the character
.IR c ,
cast to an
.IR "unsigned char" ,
to
.IR stream .
.PP
.BR fputs ()
writes the string
.I s
to
.IR stream ,
without its terminating null byte (\(aq\e0\(aq).
.PP
.BR putc ()
is equivalent to
.BR fputc ()
except that it may be implemented as a macro which evaluates
.I stream
more than once.
.PP
.BI "putchar(" c );
is equivalent to
.BI "putc(" c ", " stdout ).
.PP
.BR puts ()
writes the string
.I s
and a trailing newline
to
.IR stdout .
.PP
Calls to the functions described here can be mixed with each other and with
calls to other output functions from the
.I stdio
library for the same output stream.
.PP
For nonlocking counterparts, see
.BR unlocked_stdio (3).
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.BR fputc (),
.BR putc ()
and
.BR putchar ()
return the character written as an
.I unsigned char
cast to an
.I int
or
.B EOF
on error.
.PP
.BR puts ()
and
.BR fputs ()
return a nonnegative number on success, or
.B EOF
on error.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C89, C99.
.SH BUGS
It is not advisable to mix calls to output functions from the
.I stdio
library with low-level calls to
.BR write (2)
for the file descriptor associated with the same output stream; the results
will be undefined and very probably not what you want.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR write (2),
.BR ferror (3),
.BR fopen (3),
.BR fputwc (3),
.BR fputws (3),
.BR fseek (3),
.BR fwrite (3),
.BR gets (3),
.BR putwchar (3),
.BR scanf (3),
.BR unlocked_stdio (3)
.SH COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs,
can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.