puts(S)                        6 January 1993                        puts(S)


 Name

    puts, fputs - put a string on a stream

 Syntax


    cc  . . .  -lc


    #include <stdio.h>

    int puts (s)
    char *s;

    int fputs (s, stream)
    const char *s;
    FILE *stream;


 Description

    The puts function writes the null-terminated string pointed to by s, fol-
    lowed by a new-line character, to the standard output stream stdout.

    fputs writes the null-terminated string pointed to by s to the named out-
    put stream.

    Neither function writes the terminating null character.

 Diagnostics

    Both routines return EOF on error, which occurs if the routines try to
    write to a file that has not been opened for writing.

 Notes

    The puts function appends a new-line character while fputs does not.

 See also

    ferror(S), fopen(S), fread(S), printf(S), putc(S), stdio(S)

 Standards conformance

    fputs and puts are conformant with:
    AT&T SVID Issue 2;
    X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3, 1989;
    ANSI X3.159-1989 Programming Language -- C;
    Intel386 Binary Compatibility Specification, Edition 2 (iBCSe2);
    IEEE POSIX Std 1003.1-1990 System Application Program Interface (API) [C
    Language] (ISO/IEC 9945-1);
    and NIST FIPS 151-1.