curlprintf(3)                  libcurl Manual                  curlprintf(3)



NAME
       curlmaprintf,     curlmfprintf,     curlmprintf,     curlmsnprintf,
       curlmsprintf curlmvaprintf, curlmvfprintf, curlmvprintf,  curlmvs-
       nprintf, curlmvsprintf - formatted output conversion

SYNOPSIS
       ##include <>

       int curlmprintf(const char **format,, ...);;
       int curlmfprintf(FILE **fd,, const char **format,, ...);;
       int curlmsprintf(char **buffer,, const char **format,, ...);;
       int  curlmsnprintf(char **buffer,, sizet maxlength,, const char **format,,
       ...);;
       int curlmvprintf(const char **format,, valist args);;
       int curlmvfprintf(FILE **fd,, const char **format,, valist args);;
       int curlmvsprintf(char **buffer,, const char **format,, valist args);;
       int curlmvsnprintf(char **buffer,, sizet maxlength,, const char **format,,
       valist args);;
       char **curlmaprintf(const char **format,, ...);;
       char **curlmvaprintf(const char **format,, valist args);;

DESCRIPTION
       These  are  all  functions  that  produces output according to a format
       string and given arguments. These are mostly clones of  the  well-known
       C-style  functions  and  there  will  be no detailed explanation of all
       available formatting rules and usage here.

       See this table for notable exceptions.

              curlmprintf()
                     Normal printf() clone.

              curlmfprintf()
                     Normal fprintf() clone.

              curlmsprintf()
                     Normal sprintf() clone.

              curlmsnprintf()
                     snprintf() clone. Many systems don't  have  this.  It  is
                     just  like  sprintf  but with an extra argument after the
                     buffer that specifies the length of the target buffer.

              curlmvprintf()
                     Normal vprintf() clone.

              curlmvfprintf()
                     Normal vfprintf() clone.

              curlmvsprintf()
                     Normal vsprintf() clone.

              curlmvsnprintf()
                     vsnprintf() clone.  Many systems don't have this.  It  is
                     just  like  vsprintf but with an extra argument after the
                     buffer that specifies the length of the target buffer.

              curlmaprintf()
                     Like printf() but returns the output  string  as  a  mal-
                     loc()ed  string.  The returned string must be free()ed by
                     the receiver.

              curlmvaprintf()
                     Like curlmaprintf() but takes a valist pointer argument
                     instead of a variable amount of arguments.

       To  easily  use  all these cloned functions instead of the normal ones,
       #define MPRINTFREPLACE before you include the   file.
       Then  all  the  normal names like printf, fprintf, sprintf etc will use
       the curl-functions instead.

AVAILABILITY
       These function will be removed from the public libcurl API  in  a  near
       future.  They  will  instead  be made "available" by source code access
       only, and then as curlx-prefixed functions. See  lib/README.curlx  for
       further details.

RETURN VALUE
       The  curlmaprintf  and  curlmvaprintf functions return a pointer to a
       newly allocated string, or NUL it it failed.

       All other functions return the number of character they  actually  out-
       puted.

SEE ALSO
       printf(3), sprintf(3), fprintf(3), vprintf(3)



libcurl 7.12                     30 April 2004                  curlprintf(3)