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fprintf

Emulator of C language fprintf function. This function is obsolete

Calling Sequence

fprintf(file,format,value_1,..,value_n)

Arguments

:format a Scilab string. It specifies a character string combining

literal characters with conversion specifications.

: :value_i specifies the data to be converted according to the

format parameter.

: :file a Scilab string specifying a file name or a logical unit

number (see`file`_) Note that if `file`=0, the message will be display on standard error stream (stderr).

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Description

This function is obsolete, use preferabily the mfprintf function which is much more compatible with the C fprintf functionalities.

The fprintf function converts, formats, and writes its value parameters, under control of the format parameter, to the file specified by its file parameter.

The format parameter is a character string that contains two types of objects:

:Literal characters which are copied to the output stream. : :Conversion specifications each of which causes zero or more items

to be fetched from the value parameter list. See printf_conversion for details.

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If any value`s remain after the entire `format has been processed, they are ignored.

Examples

u=`file`_('open',`fullfile`_(TMPDIR,'results'),'unknown') //open the result file
t=0:0.1:2*%pi;
for tk=t
  fprintf(u,'time = %6.3f value = %6.3f',tk,`sin`_(tk)) // write a line
end
`file`_('close',u) //close the result file

fprintf(0,'My error which is going to be displayed on the stderr')

See Also

• mfprintf converts, formats, and writes data to a file
• string conversion to string
• print prints variables in a file
• write write in a formatted file
• format number printing and display format
• disp displays variables
• file file management
• mprintf converts, formats, and writes data to the main scilab window
• msprintf converts, formats, and writes data in a string
• printf_conversion mprintf, msprintf, mfprintf conversion specifications