In this article you will get list of format specifiers in C.
Format specifier is used to specify the data type while reading or writing. For example if you want to print value of an integer type variable then you have to use %d in printf() function. Take below example.
#include<stdio.h>
int main(){
int a;
scanf("%d", &a);
printf("%d", a);
return 0;
}
As you can see that I have used %d while reading and printing integer value.
C language has various format specifiers that I have listed below.
List of Format Specifiers in C
| Data Type | Format Specifier |
| char | %c |
| signed char | %c (or %hhi for numerical output) |
| unsigned char | %c (or %hhu for numerical output) |
| short short int signed short signed short int |
%hi |
| unsigned short
unsigned short int |
%hu |
| int
signed signed int |
%i or %d |
| unsigned
unsigned int |
%u |
| long
long int signed long signed long int |
%li |
| unsigned long
unsigned long int |
%lu |
| long long
long long int signed long long signed long long int |
%lli |
| unsigned long long
unsigned long long int |
%llu |
| float | %f (promoted automatically to double for printf()) |
| double | %f (%F)
(%lf (%lF) for scanf()) %g %G %e %E (for scientific notation) |
| long double | %Lf %LF
%Lg %LG %Le %LE |
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