NAME

fputs, puts — output a line to a stream

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>

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

int
puts(const char *str);

DESCRIPTION

The function fputs() writes the string pointed to by str to the stream pointed to by stream.

The function puts() writes the string str, and a terminating newline character, to the stream stdout.

RETURN VALUES

The functions fputs() and puts() return a nonnegative integer on success and EOF on error.

ERRORS

[EBADF]

The stream supplied is not a writable stream.

The functions fputs() and puts() may also fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the routine write(2).

SEE ALSO

write(2), ferror(3), putc(3), stdio(3)

STANDARDS

The functions fputs() and puts() conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”).