why?
why?
To put a line to a file stream. Duh!
Quzah.
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To print a line of text to the screen, you might want to use it instead of puts() because it doesn't append a newline.
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puts() appends a newline.
That was my point.
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Thanks for the answers but to make the questions more clear.Why not use the conventional printf.BTW Quzah i dont understand what you said
Because printf always goes to stdout, but fputs can go to any file, of course.
Now a better question might be "why use fputs instead of fprintf?" and the answer to that is, it's simpler, and therefore somewhat quicker and somewhat smaller (which is a win if you're statically linking your libc).
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fputs() doesn't have to parse the string "%s" to figure out that all you want to do is print a string.
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In other words, you have to prepare your string ahead of time for fputs, where fprintf allows you to format at the time of outputting.
Quzah.
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If you're just trying spit out a simple message that doesn't need formatting like "You win!" then puts()/fputs() is more efficient.
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