1.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Isabell Long <issyl0@FreeBSD.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd April 7, 2012 28.Dt PRINTF_L 3 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm printf_l , 32.Nm asprintf_l , 33.Nm fprintf_l , 34.Nm snprintf_l , 35.Nm sprintf_l , 36.Nm vasprintf_l , 37.Nm vfprintf_l , 38.Nm vprintf_l , 39.Nm vsnprintf_l , 40.Nm vsprintf_l 41.Nd formatted output conversion 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In stdio.h 46.In xlocale.h 47.Ft int 48.Fn printf_l "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "..." 49.Ft int 50.Fn asprintf_l "char **ret" "locale_t loc" "const char * format" "..." 51.Ft int 52.Fn fprintf_l "FILE * restrict stream" "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "..." 53.Ft int 54.Fn snprintf_l "char * restrict str" "size_t size" "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "..." 55.Ft int 56.Fn sprintf_l "char * restrict str" "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "..." 57.Ft int 58.Fn vasprintf_l "char **ret" "locale_t loc" "const char *format" "va_list ap" 59.Ft int 60.Fn vfprintf_l "FILE * restrict stream" "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "va_list ap" 61.Ft int 62.Fn vprintf_l "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "va_list ap" 63.Ft int 64.Fn vsnprintf_l "char * restrict str" "size_t size" "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "va_list ap" 65.Ft int 66.Fn vsprintf_l "char * restrict str" "locale_t loc" "const char * restrict format" "va_list ap" 67.Sh DESCRIPTION 68The above functions are used to convert formatted output in the locale 69.Fa loc . 70They behave in the same way as the versions without the _l suffix, but use 71the specified locale rather than the global or per-thread locale. 72See the specific manual pages for more information. 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr printf 3 , 75.Xr xlocale 3 76.Sh STANDARDS 77These functions do not conform to any specific standard so they should be 78considered as non-portable local extensions. 79.Sh HISTORY 80These functions first appeared in Darwin and were first implemented in 81.Fx 9.1 . 82