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This section describes miscellaneous conversions for printf
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The `%c' conversion prints a single character. The `-' flag can be used to specify left-justification in the field, but no other flags are defined, and no precision or type modifier can be given. For example:
printf ("%c%c%c%c%c", "h", "e", "l", "l", "o");
prints `hello'.
The `%s' conversion prints a string. The corresponding argument must be a string. A precision can be specified to indicate the maximum number of characters to write; otherwise characters in the string up to but not including the terminating null character are written to the output stream. The `-' flag can be used to specify left-justification in the field, but no other flags or type modifiers are defined for this conversion. For example:
printf ("%3s%-6s", "no", "where");
prints ` nowhere ' (note the leading and trailing spaces).