Stores formatted output in a wide-character string buffer

#include <wchar.h>
int swprintf ( wchar_t * restrict dest , size_t n ,
              const wchar_t * restrict format , ... );

The swprintf( ) function is similar to snprintf( ), except that its format string argument and its output are strings of wide characters.

Example

const wchar_t *dollar_as_wstr( long amount)
// Converts a number of cents into a wide string showing dollars and cents.
// For example, converts (long)-123456 into the wide string L"-$1234.56"
{
  static wchar_t buffer[16], sign[2] = L"";
  if ( amount < 0L)
    amount = -amount, sign[0] = '-';
  ldiv_t dollars_cents = ldiv( amount, 100);

  swprintf( buffer, sizeof(buffer),
            L"%ls$%ld.%2ld", sign, dollars_cents.quot, dollars_cents.rem );
  return buffer;
}

See Also

wprintf( ) and fwprintf( ), declared in stdio.h and wchar.h; and vwprintf( ), vfwprintf( ), and vswprintf( ), declared in stdarg.h; printf( ), fprintf( ), sprintf( ), snprintf( ), declared in stdio.h; vprintf( ), vfprintf( ), vsprintf( ), vsnprintf( ), declared in stdarg.h; the wscanf( ) input functions. Argument conversion in the printf( ) family of functions is described in detail under printf( ) in this chapter.