Summary

In this chapter, we fairly exhaustively explored output formatting for integers—both signed and unsigned—floating-point numbers, characters, and strings. Example programs that demonstrate the most common and useful combinations of print modifiers were also presented. However, not all the possible combinations or modifiers were demonstrated. These programs can and should be used as starting points for further experimentation for your specific output formatting needs. These programs are also valuable to verify how a particular C runtime performs because there are always minor differences from one implementation of C to the next. This is one place where differences appear most often.

In the next two chapters, we will explore getting simple input from the command line and then getting formatted and unformatted input from the console. We will then expand those topics in subsequent chapters even further for files, including reading various inputs from...