usmanajabbar / printf

A Self-Made Printf Function By JI.Cruz and Usman Jabbar as a part of a Holberton School Curriculum.

_printf

A Self-Made Printf Function By JI.Cruz and Usman Jabbar as a part of a Holberton School Curriculum.

Requirements

• Linux (Recommended)
• gcc (>= 4.8.4)

Files Required

• holberton.h
• _printf.c
• functions.c
• _putchar.c
• advanced_specifiers.c

Files	Short Description
holberton.h	contains all prototypes
_printf.c	contains the all the main logic
functions.c	contains basic functions/format specifiers
_putchar.c	contains function to write to buffers
advanced_specifiers.c	contains all advanced format specifiers

Added Notes

This function makes major use of putchar in order to stay optimistic about memory since every single buffer requires a single block of memory.

Install

On Linux, you could either download our program as a zip or simply clone our repository to your favourite folder.

Instructions to clone our repository (Recommended)

sudo apt-get install git
cd /$YourFolder$/
git clone https://github.com/UsmanGTA/printf

Using using the zip method

sudo apt-get install unzip
wget https://github.com/UsmanGTA/printf/archive/master.zip
cd /$YourFolder$/
unzip printf-master.zip

By cloning our github, you could make sure that you have all of the files necessary, along with a manpage highlighting the different formatting options available.

Usage

After cloning our program, you could simply program your new program with our _printf function. Here's some of the usage examples.

#include holberton.h
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_printf("This is an example of printing a %s", "string"); \\ Replaces %s with arguments

_printf("This is an example of printing a %d", "360); \\ Replaces %d with arguments

_printf("This is an example of printing a %i", "360); \\ Replaces %i with arguments

_printf("This is an example of printing a %r, "string"); \\ Replaces %r with reversed arguments

_printf("This is an example of printfing a %R, "string"); \\ Replaces %R with ROT13'ed string

Built by

• Usman Abdul Jabbar Shaikh
• Jose Cruz Ruiz