Advantage of Fmt over sprintf

[Les__Bartel]

Are there advantages of using fmt over sprintf in CVI code? On the surface, they appear to be very similar down to the interpretation of the format string. I understand that the sprintf format string allows for more options, but those aren't always necessary in my projects.

[Wolfgang · Accepted solution]

NI's recommendation is to use printf/scanf instead of Fmt/Scan, see the discussion here

[ebalci]

I use Fmt and Scan mostly for the t (terminate) and d (discard) flags. I do not know their equivalent for sprintf. Fmt is much better documented than sprintf.
Does anybody have a full feature list of sprintf?

[Les__Bartel]

This Wikipedia page documents it. See also it's many references.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf_format_string

[RobertoBozzolo]

As a side comment over Wolfgang note, look at the last comment by LuisG in the linked Idea exchange thread: Fmt/Scan are not to be considered obsolete or deprecated. It seems true, nevertheless, that no further addition is to be expected on these functions.

I am still using Scan sometimes in my programs as it appears to have a few more options than sscanf that are useful in some particular situations.