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In C, given a string variable str, which of the following two should be preferred to print it to stdout?

1) puts(str);

2) printf(str);

puts() can be preferred for printing a string because it is generally less expensive (implementation of puts() is generally simpler than printf()), and if the string has formatting characters like ‘%s’, then printf() would give unexpected results. Also, if str is a user input string, then use of printf() might cause security issues (see this for details).
Also note that puts() moves the cursor to next line. If you do not want the cursor to be moved to next line, then you can use following variation of puts().

fputs(str, stdout)

You can try following programs for testing the above discussed differences between puts() and print().

Program 1

C

// C program to show the use of puts
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    puts("Geeksfor");
    puts("Geeks");
 
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

Program 2

C

// C program to show the use of fputs and getchar
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    fputs("Geeksfor", stdout);
    fputs("Geeks", stdout);
 
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

Program 3

C

// C program to show  the side effect of using
// %s in printf
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    // % is intentionally put here to show side effects of
    // using printf(str)
    printf("Geek%sforGeek%s");
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

Program 4

C

// C prgram to show the use of puts
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    puts("Geek%sforGeek%s");
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

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