SAS/C Library Reference, Vol. 1

puts -- Write a String to the Standard Output Stream

SYNOPSIS

 #include <stdio.h>

 int puts(const char *str);

DESCRIPTION

puts(str) is equivalent to fputs(str, stdout), except that a new-line character is written to stdout after the last character of str.

RETURN VALUE

puts returns EOF if an error occurs. Otherwise, puts returns a nonzero value.

EXAMPLE

This example writes the following two lines to stdout

the first line of example output.
the second line of example output, written in two pieces.

  #include <stdio.h>

  main()
  {
     puts("The first line of example output.");
     fputs("The second line of example output ",stdout);
     puts("written in two pieces.");
  }

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