if we have to output to stdout when should we use fprintf or printf

if we have to output to stdout when should we use fprintf or printf

fprintf(stdout,"asdfa",5);
printf("asdfa");

thanx in advance....
awaiting a reply....

Normally, If you would like to print to standard output you can go ahead with Printf, In case if you want to Print any thing to user defined Files, you can use fprintf.
There is not much difference between printf and fprintf, if your writing to standard output

Thanx,
Gobinath

Gobinath is right. Irrelevant to the question however, this is the prototype for fprintf()

Code:

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int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...);

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so im not sure why you put a 5 here

Code:

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fprintf(stdout,"asdfa",5);

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fprintf(stdout, "blah");

is exactly the same as

printf("blah");

Think of printf() as a "wrapper" for fprintf(stdout....)

Code:

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int  fprintf (FILE * stream , const char * format [ , argument , ...] );

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Print formatted data to a stream.
Prints to the specified stream a sequence of arguments formatted as the format argument specifies.


Parameters.
stream
Pointer to an open file.
format
String that contains the text to be printed.
Optionally it can contain format tags that are substituted by the values specified in subsequent argument(s) and formatted as requested.
The number of format tags must correspond with the number of additional arguments that follows.
The format tags follow this prototype:

%[flags][width][.precision][modifiers]type

Code:

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int  printf ( const char * format [ , argument , ...] );

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Print formatted data to stdout.
Prints to standard output (stdout) a sequence of arguments formatted as the format argument specifies.


Parameters.

format
String that contains the text to be printed.
Optionally it can contain format tags that are substituted by the values specified in subsequent argument(s) and formatted as requested.
The number of format tags must correspond to the number of additional arguments that follows.
The format tags follow this prototype:

%[flags][width][.precision][modifiers]type

^^^
http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstdio/fprintf.html