What Are Format Specifiers and what is the importance of it?

Question

we use format specifiers. I want to know what are those and how they work and its significance.

Answer 1

"%s" takes string values

"%c" takes char values

"%d" takes int values

"%lf takes double values

"%f" takes float values

example:

printf("%s",name);

Answer 2

If you want to learn more get the basics of C++ down first.

Then learn C

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Answer 3

The specifers are from C code.

Nothing to do with Java.

Answer 4

can i get a simplified ans.