Reference
C Library
IOstream Library
Strings library
STL Containers
STL Algorithms
Miscellaneous
C Library
cassert (assert.h)
cctype (ctype.h)
cerrno (errno.h)
cfloat (float.h)
ciso646 (iso646.h)
climits (limits.h)
clocale (locale.h)
cmath (math.h)
csetjmp (setjmp.h)
csignal (signal.h)
cstdarg (stdarg.h)
cstddef (stddef.h)
cstdio (stdio.h)
cstdlib (stdlib.h)
cstring (string.h)
ctime (time.h)
cstdio (stdio.h)
functions:
clearerr
fclose
feof
ferror
fflush
fgetc
fgetpos
fgets
fopen
fprintf
fputc
fputs
fread
freopen
fscanf
fseek
fsetpos
ftell
fwrite
getc
getchar
gets
perror
printf
putc
putchar
puts
remove
rename
rewind
scanf
setbuf
setvbuf
sprintf
sscanf
tmpfile
tmpnam
ungetc
vfprintf
vprintf
vsprintf
macro constants:
EOF
FILENAME_MAX
NULL
TMP_MAX
objects:
stderr
stdin
stdout
types:
FILE
fpos_t
size_t


putc

function
<cstdio>
int putc ( int character, FILE * stream );

Write character to stream

Writes a character to the stream and advances the position indicator.
The character is written at the current position of the stream as indicated by the internal position indicator, which is then advanced one character.
putc is equivalent to fputc and also expects a stream as parameter, but putc may be implemented as a macro, so the argument passed should not be an expression with potential side effects.
See putchar for a similar function without stream parameter.

Parameters

character
Character to be written. The character is passed as its int promotion.
stream
Pointer to a FILE object that identifies the stream where the character is to be written.

Return Value

If there are no errors, the same character that has been written is returned.
If an error occurs, EOF is returned and the error indicator is set.

Example

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
/* putc example: alphabet writer */
#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
  FILE * pFile;
  char c;
  pFile=fopen("alphabet.txt","wt");
  for (c = 'A' ; c <= 'Z' ; c++) {
    putc (c , pFile);
    }
  fclose (pFile);
  return 0;
}


This example program creates a file called alphabet.txt and writes ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ to it.

See also