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Traditional C formatting in Arduino print
If you are familiar with the C language and would like to use the formatting options provided by C language in the Arduino print statements, then there's an easy way to do it. All you need to do is define a character array, and populate it using sprintf(). Within sprintf, you can use the C language formatting. Later, you can simply print out that buffer. The following example code demonstrates how this is done −
Example
char print_buf[100]; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly: for(int i = 0; i < 50; i++){ sprintf(print_buf,"Current loop count : %d
", i); Serial.println(print_buf); delay(1000); } }
The Serial Monitor output is −
Output
It is a good practice to try and ensure that you don't over-populate the buffer. For instance, in the above code, the print_buf has been declared with a size of 100. So, if more than 100 characters are populated in the print_buf, it can result in some runtime errors, depending on your board and code structure.