Format specifier

Question

In maximum conditions format specifier are know as the first element of data type.
Like as:
%f --> float
%c --> char
%s --> string
..And so on, but why an integer (int) specifier known as '%d', why it is not '%i' or any other character??
I want know only what is the meaning of "d", is "d" meaningful???
Please tell me🙂

Answer 1

%d for decimal that means that the number should be base 10 number you can not use it for hexadecimal or octal numbers on the other hand %i is for integer that means any integer it can be decimal, hexadecimal or octal

Answer 2

.. Thanks to all, I understood 😊

Answer 3

rupali
You can also use %i for int by the way,and %x for hex and %o for octal values!
Hope this helped :)

Answer 4

As Ruba Kh stated, %i and %d is different. Precisely, they are different in scanf but not in printf.