printf

Question

What is the use of %n being used in printf statement

Comments

%n is quite special access specifier which in turn assign the no of characters printed on console to the value that has been passed as argument .
For example : printf("%nGATE ",&d).will result d=4. After printing gate.

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#include<stdio.h>

int main()

{

  int c;

  printf("geeks for %ngeeks ", &c);

  printf("%d", c);

  getchar();

  return 0;

}

What will this print?

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first printf : geeks for geeks
second : 13
Overrall : geeks for geeks13?

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No , it prints geeks for geeks 10