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Borland C++ 3.1 › <stdio.h>

putchar

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Outputs character on stdout.

Defined in header <stdio.h>

Syntax

#include <stdio.h>
int putchar(int c);

Portability

DOSUNIXWindowsANSI CC++ only
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Remarks

putchar(c) is a macro defined to be putc(c, stdout).

Return value

On success, putchar returns the character c. On error, putchiar returns EOF.

See also

Example

#include <stdio.h>

/* define some box drawing characters  */
#define LEFT_TOP  0xDA
#define RIGHT_TOP 0xBF
tdefine HORIZ     0xC4
#define VERT      0xB3
#define LEFT_BOT  OxCO
#define RIGHT_BOT 0xD9
int main(void)

   char i, j;

   /* draw the top of the box  */
   putchar(LEFT_TOP) ;
   for (i=0; i<10; i++)
      putchar(HORIZ),•
   putchar(RIGHT_TOP);
   putchar('\n');

   /* draw the middle */
   for (i=0; i<4; i++)  {
      putchar(VERT);
      for (]=0; j<10; j++)
         putchar (' ');
      putchar(VERT);
      putchar('\n');
   }
   /* draw the bottom */
   putchar(LEFT_BOT);
   for (i=0; i<10; i++)
      putchar(HORIZ);
   putchar(RIGHT_BOT),•
   putchar('\n');
   return 0;

Differences from modern implementations

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