What does %S mean in PHP, HTML or XML?

Question

I\'m looking at Webmonkey\'s PHP and MySql Tutorial, Lesson 2. I think it\'s a php literal. What does %s mean? It\'s inside the print_f() function i

Answer 1

%s is a type specifier which will be replaced to valuable's value (string) in case of %s.

Besides %s you can use other specifiers, most popular are below:

d - the argument is treated as an integer, and presented as a (signed) decimal number.

f - the argument is treated as a float, and presented as a floating-point number (locale aware).

s - the argument is treated as and presented as a string.