What does sprintf stand for?

Question

I tried looking it up on google and wikipedia but couldn\'t find an answer... Does anyone know what \'sprintf\' or \'printf\' stands for? Is it an abbreviation for something???<

Answer 1

sprintf originates from C. Refer to e.g.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/sprintf/

where it says:

Writes into the array pointed by str a C string ...

thus: s(tring)printf(ormatted)