fputs

Header: <stdio.h>

Writes every character from the null-terminated string str to the output stream stream, as if by repeatedly executing fputc.

# Declarations

int fputs( const char* str, FILE* stream );

(until C99)

int fputs( const char* restrict str, FILE* restrict stream );

(since C99)

# Parameters

# Return value

On success, returns a non-negative value.

# Notes

The related function puts appends a newline character to the output, while fputs writes the string unmodified.

Different implementations return different non-negative numbers: some return the last character written, some return the number of characters written (or INT_MAX if the string was longer than that), some simply return a non-negative constant such as zero.

# Example

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    int rc = fputs("Hello World", stdout);
 
    if (rc == EOF)
       perror("fputs()"); // POSIX requires that errno is set
}

# See also