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Robb1
Robb1

Reputation: 5025

Defining a string as in fprintf syntax

How to build up a string in C that includes parameters? Is there a way similar to fprintf syntax to do it? For example here's a little testProg.c:

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   printf("You are running %s program.\n", argv[0]);
   // It will print: "You are running testProg.c program.\n"
   char myString[];
   // I want the string printed by printf to be saved inside myString[]
   // ...
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 63

Answers (1)

tdao
tdao

Reputation: 17698

You can use snprintf. First determine the buffer size for myString that will fit the content. Then use snprintf to fill in the content.

char myString[100] = "";
snprintf( myString, sizeof(myString), "You are running %s program.", argv[0] );

snprintf is similar to fprintf (which is the general version of printf with the output stream being stdout), so all control formats applied - details can be found in the standard:

7.21.6.5 The snprintf function

     #include <stdio.h>
     int snprintf(char * restrict s, size_t n,
          const char * restrict format, ...);

Upvotes: 7

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