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 5 characters namely 3 value of a namely...

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

akhilsharma51

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• Feb 1st, 2010

It is the number of characters what it return, in above exampleint a=10;printf("%d,(printf("%d%d%d",a,a,a))");Output: 10 10 106Since C compiler ignores spaces and since there are total 6 characters hence 6 is in the output. 

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