1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 2<html lang="en"> 3<head> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 5<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> 6<link rel="up" title="FatFs" href="../00index_e.html"> 7<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" title="Japanese" href="../ja/printf.html"> 8<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css_e.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="ELM Default"> 9<title>FatFs - f_printf</title> 10</head> 11 12<body> 13 14<div class="para func"> 15<h2>f_printf</h2> 16<p>The f_printf function writes formatted string to the file.</p> 17<pre> 18int f_printf ( 19 FIL* <span class="arg">fp</span>, <span class="c">/* [IN] File object */</span> 20 const TCHAR* <span class="arg">fmt</span>, <span class="c">/* [IN] Format stirng */</span> 21 ... 22); 23</pre> 24</div> 25 26<div class="para arg"> 27<h4>Parameters</h4> 28<dl class="par"> 29<dt>fp</dt> 30<dd>Pointer to the open file object structure.</dd> 31<dt>fmt</dt> 32<dd>Pointer to the null <tt>'\0'</tt> terminated format string. The terminator character will not be output.</dd> 33<dt>...</dt> 34<dd>Optional arguments...</dd> 35 36</dl> 37</div> 38 39 40<div class="para ret"> 41<h4>Return Values</h4> 42<p>When the string was written successfuly, it returns number of character encoding units written to the file. When the function failed due to disk full or any error, an <tt>EOF (-1)</tt> will be returned.</p> 43</div> 44 45 46<div class="para desc"> 47<h4>Description</h4> 48<p>The format control directive is a sub-set of standard library shown as follows:</p> 49<pre> 50 %[flag][width][type] 51</pre> 52<dl> 53<dt>flag</dt><dd>Padding options. A <tt>-</tt> specifies left justified. A <tt>0</tt> specifies zero padded.</dd> 54<dt>width</dt><dd>Minimum width of the field, <tt>1-99</tt> or <tt>*</tt>. If the width of generated string is less than the specified value, rest field is padded with white spaces or zeros. An <tt>*</tt> specifies the value comes from an argument in int type.</dd> 55<dt>type</dt><dd><tt>c s d u o x b</tt> and prefix <tt>l</tt> specify type of the argument, character, string, signed integer in decimal, unsigned integer in decimal, unsigned integer in octal, unsigned integer in hexdecimal and unsigned integer in binary respectively. If <tt>sizeof (long)</tt> is greater than <tt>sizeof (int)</tt> (this is typical of 8/16-bit systems), a prefix <tt>l</tt> needs to be explicitly specified for long integer argument. These characters except for <tt>x</tt> are case insensitive.</dd> 56</dl> 57<p>When FatFs is configured for Unicode API (<tt><a href="config.html#lfn_unicode">FF_LFN_UNICODE</a> >= 1</tt>), character encoding on the string fuctions, <tt>f_putc</tt>, <tt>f_puts</tt>, <tt>f_printf</tt> and <tt>f_gets</tt> function, is also switched to Unicode. The Unicode characters in multiple encoding unit, such as surrogate pair and multi-byte sequence, should not be divided into two function calls, or the character will be lost. The character encoding <em>on the file</em> to be written via this function is selected by <tt><a href="config.html#strf_encode">FF_STRF_ENCODE</a></tt>. The characters with wrong encoding or invalid for the output encoding will be lost.</p> 58</div> 59 60 61<div class="para comp"> 62<h4>QuickInfo</h4> 63<p>This is a wrapper function of <a href="write.html"><tt>f_write</tt></a> function. Available when <tt><a href="config.html#fs_readonly">FF_FS_READONLY</a> == 0</tt> and <tt><a href="config.html#use_strfunc">FF_USE_STRFUNC</a> >= 1</tt>. When <tt>FF_USE_STRFUNC == 2</tt>, <tt>'\n'</tt>s in the generated string are written as <tt>'\r'+'\n'</tt> each.</p> 64</div> 65 66 67<div class="para use"> 68<h4>Example</h4> 69<pre> 70 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%d", 1234); <span class="c">/* "1234" */</span> 71 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%6d,%3d%%", -200, 5); <span class="c">/* " -200, 5%" */</span> 72 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%ld", 12345L); <span class="c">/* "12345" */</span> 73 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%06d", 25); <span class="c">/* "000025" */</span> 74 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%06d", -25); <span class="c">/* "000-25" */</span> 75 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%*d", 5, 100); <span class="c">/* " 100" */</span> 76 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%-6d", 25); <span class="c">/* "25 " */</span> 77 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%u", -1); <span class="c">/* "65535" or "4294967295" */</span> 78 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%04x", 0xAB3); <span class="c">/* "0ab3" */</span> 79 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%08lX", 0x123ABCL); <span class="c">/* "00123ABC" */</span> 80 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%04o", 255); <span class="c">/* "0377" */</span> 81 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%016b", 0x550F); <span class="c">/* "0101010100001111" */</span> 82 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%s", "String"); <span class="c">/* "String" */</span> 83 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%8s", "abc"); <span class="c">/* " abc" */</span> 84 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%-8s", "abc"); <span class="c">/* "abc " */</span> 85 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%c", 'a'); <span class="c">/* "a" */</span> 86 <em>f_printf</em>(&fil, "%f", 10.0); <span class="c">/* f_printf lacks floating point support */</span> 87</pre> 88</div> 89 90 91<div class="para ref"> 92<h4>See Also</h4> 93<p><tt><a href="open.html">f_open</a>, <a href="putc.html">f_putc</a>, <a href="puts.html">f_puts</a>, <a href="gets.html">f_gets</a>, <a href="close.html">f_close</a>, <a href="sfile.html">FIL</a></tt></p> 94</div> 95 96<p class="foot"><a href="../00index_e.html">Return</a></p> 97</body> 98</html> 99