snprintf() — Format and write data
Format
#include <stdio.h>
int snprintf(char *__restrict__ s, size_t n, const char *__restrict__ format, ...);
General Description
The snprintf() function formats and writes output to an array (specified by argument s). If n is zero, nothing is written, and s may be a null pointer. Otherwise, output characters beyond the n-1st are discarded rather than being written to the array, and a null character is written at the end of the characters actually written into the array. If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined.
Returned Value
The snprintf() function returns the number of characters that would have been written had n been sufficiently large, not counting the terminating null character, or a negative value if an encoding error occurred. Thus, the null-terminated output has been completely written if and only if the returned value is nonnegative and less than n.