My own version of printf

[DavidDobson]

Hi everyone

I am developing my own console printing application for use with an embedded micro controller, I have created a simple method to allow me to print plain text to my console:

void cPrint (char *cMessage) {
} // cPrint

Which works very nicely, I would like to be able to include numbers in my text so as to be able to output system variables. I use a range of numbers from uint8_t to uint64_t, int, real and double formats etc…

I’m not being 'very' greedy at this stage, and would like to print out (lets say for starters) a uint8_t value within my text.

Does anyone know how I might do this? At the end of the operation the number will need to be part of the char variable this is passed to the cPrint method as shown above.

Many thanks for any help you can give

David

[matsp]

Does your embedded compiler support vsprintf? If so, you can use vsprintf() to format the message, and then output the formatted string with your own simple "puts" variant.

Writing a complete printf() is fairly complex, as it supports quite a lot of things.

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Mats

[PING]

Can you use sprintf() ? If not, you'll have to parse the format string like printf() does and insert the numbers wherever required.
Suppose you want to print a number 189
Create a temporary buffer char buf[100] and initialize count to 0
Then while your number isn't zero,

buf[count++]=(number%10)+'0';
number/=10;

Then just reverse the string in buf[] to get your number.