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<h4 class="subsection">14.2.10 Other Output Conversions</h4>
<p>This section describes miscellaneous conversions for <code>printf</code>.
<p>The ‘<samp><span class="samp">%c</span></samp>’ conversion prints a single character. The ‘<samp><span class="samp">-</span></samp>’
flag can be used to specify left-justification in the field, but no
other flags are defined, and no precision or type modifier can be given.
For example:
<pre class="example"> printf ("%c%c%c%c%c", "h", "e", "l", "l", "o");
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<p class="noindent">prints ‘<samp><span class="samp">hello</span></samp>’.
<p>The ‘<samp><span class="samp">%s</span></samp>’ conversion prints a string. The corresponding argument
must be a string. A precision can be specified to indicate the maximum
number of characters to write; otherwise characters in the string up to
but not including the terminating null character are written to the
output stream. The ‘<samp><span class="samp">-</span></samp>’ flag can be used to specify
left-justification in the field, but no other flags or type modifiers
are defined for this conversion. For example:
<pre class="example"> printf ("%3s%-6s", "no", "where");
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<p class="noindent">prints ‘<samp><span class="samp"> nowhere </span></samp>’ (note the leading and trailing spaces).
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