#include <stdio.h> /* Following header files are not needed stdio.h is enough #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> */ #define red "\x1b[31m" #define green "\x1b[32m" #define yell "\x1b[33m" #define blue "\x1b[34m" #define magneta "\x1b[35m" #define cyan "\x1b[36m" #define reset "\x1b[0m" int main () { // Your value to be printed float testvalue = 125.25; // precision int prec = 5; // number of digits after decimal int dig = 3; // 'f' for float char c = 'f'; // this holds your format string...("%s...%f") etc char format[10]; // Here we are creating your fmt string sprintf(format, "%%s%%%d.%d%c%%s\n", prec, dig,c); // Finally printing with different colors printf(format,red,testvalue,reset); printf(format,blue,testvalue,reset); }
Code:
akshay@Aix:~/Desktop$ gcc color.c
Code:
akshay@Aix:~/Desktop$ ./a.out 125.250 125.250