achal mehra

• Dec 5th, 2006

 

the printf() function returns the no. of characters to be printed.for e.g:

 i=printf("achal mehra");

 printf("%d",i);

           will give result as: i=11

anjanadevi

• Dec 14th, 2006

 

h=printf("a");

printf("%d",h);

this will return the ascii value of a

msonia0710

 Profile Answers by msonia0710 Questions by msonia0710

• Mar 20th, 2007

 

i think the printf() function returns the no. of values  that are printed.

Vishal Singh Bhardvaj

• Aug 21st, 2007

 

printf function always returns the number of characters printed by the printf function. Let us see this in brief with an example:

main()
{
int a=10;
printf(“%d,printf(“%d%d%d,a,a,a));
}

In this above program the inner printf is first called which prints three times the value of a, with space between each value namely 10 10 10. So 6 characters(if a=100 then it will return 9 since 100 three times constitute 39 characters) totals 6 characters gets printed.

If we are giving the spaces between the %d in the printf statement then this space will also will be calculated.
So as explained before the inner printf after printing the values returns the number of characters printed namely 6 which is printed by the outer printf .

The output of the above program is

1010106

So it is always that function returns a value and so is printf which returns the number of characters successfully printed.

if the program is like this

main()
{
int a=10;
printf(“ %d,printf(“%d %d %d,a,a,a)); //Spaces are considered
}
Then it will print 10 10 10 8 

akhilsharma51

 Profile Answers by akhilsharma51 

• Feb 1st, 2010

 

It is the number of characters what it return, in above example

int a=10;

printf("%d,(printf("%d%d%d",a,a,a))");

Output: 10 10 106

Since C compiler ignores spaces and since there are total 6 characters hence 6 is in the output.

 

Ayushee

• Jul 12th, 2011

 

Code
#include<stdio.h>


int main() 


{ 


int a=10; 


printf("%d",printf("%d%d%d",a,a,a));


printf("/n");


printf("%d",printf("%d %d %d",a,a,a)); 


return 0;


}

anwer would be 1010106
10 10 108