_snprintf

Print formatted data to a string.

int _snprintf (char * string, size_t max, char * format [, arguments]...);

int snprintf (char * string, size_t max, char * format [, arguments]...);

Required Header
<stdio.h>

Return Value

Each of these functions return the number of characters printed to the string.

Parameters

string

  A pointer to the string result

max

  The maximum number of characters to print

format

  The format control string

arguments

  Optional arguments

Remarks

The _snprintf function prints formatted data to the string based on the same rules of the printf function, using the optional arguments as specified by the format string. No more then max characters are inserted into the string buffer.

Stream I/O Routines

See Also    fprintf, printf, sprintf, sscanf, _vsnprintf