puts

Outputs a string to stdout.

Defined in header <stdio.h>

Syntax

#include <stdio.h>
int puts(const char *s);

Portability

Remarks

puts copies the null-terminated string s to the standard output stream stdout and appends a newline character.

Return value

On successful completion, puts returns a nonnegative value. Otherwise, it returns a value of EOF.

See also

• cputs
• fputs
• gets
• printf
• putchar

Differences from modern implementations

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Modern references

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