Output of nested scanf statements in a printf

[neotan]

iam an amatuer who is trying to get into the C programming but I have many doubts please help me. If scan is function than what value does scanf returns and similarly about printf what is the output of this statement
main()
int i;
printf(""%d",scanf("%d",scanf("%d",&i));
}

[DeMan]

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[JosAH]

iam an amatuer who is trying to get into the C programming but I have many doubts please help me. If scan is function than what value does scanf returns and similarly about printf what is the output of this statement
main()
int i;
printf(""%d",scanf("%d",scanf("%d",&i));
}

Bookmark this link. It's a nice reference for your C and/or C++ development.
scanf returns the number of items that were succesfully scanned and printf returns
the number of characters that were printed.

Your code example most likely produces a core dump because its second, third
etc. (if applicable) arguments are supposed to be addresses where the scan
results should be stored.

kind regards,

Jos

[archonmagnus]

In order to test the return values, try this code:

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main (void)
{
    int i;
    printf("Enter an integer value: ");
 
    int j = scanf("%d", &i);
    int k = printf("Items Scanned: %d", j);   // Outputs "1"
 
    printf("\nItems Printed: %d\n", k);     // Outputs "16" (Total character outputs from last printf)
 
    return 0;
}
 

[sicarie]

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