🚀 ft_printf

A complete recreation of the standard C printf function, a core project at 42.

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🎯 Project Goals

This project was a deep dive into variadic functions, a powerful but complex feature of C. The main goal was to replicate the functionality of printf from scratch, learning to handle an unknown number of arguments and format types. This project significantly improved my skills in argument parsing, string manipulation, and modular code design.

🛠️ Technical Details

• Variadic Function: Built around stdarg.h to process an indefinite number of arguments passed to the function.
• Flag Handling: Manages the following conversion specifiers: %c, %s, %p, %d, %i, %u, %x, %X, and %%.
• Challenge: The most challenging part was designing a flexible system to parse the format string and correctly fetch the right argument type from the va_list without errors or memory issues.

⚙️ How to Compile & Run

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone [https://github.com/carlopezc/Printf.git](https://github.com/carlopezc/Printf.git)
   cd Printf

2. Compile the library:

   make

   This will create the libftprintf.a library file.

3. To use it in another program, link the library during compilation:

   gcc your_program.c -L. -lftprintf