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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+  <refentry id="function.vfprintf">
+   <refnamediv>
+    <refname>vfprintf</refname>
+    <refpurpose>Write a formatted string to a stream</refpurpose>
+   </refnamediv>
+   <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+     <methodsynopsis>
+      <type>int</type><methodname>vfprintf</methodname>
+      <methodparam><type>resource</type><parameter>handle</parameter></methodparam>
+      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>format</parameter></methodparam>
+      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>array</type><parameter>args</parameter></methodparam>
+     </methodsynopsis>
+    <simpara>
+     Write a string produced according to <parameter>format</parameter>
+     to the stream resource specified by <parameter>handle</parameter>.
+     <parameter>format</parameter> is described in the documentation for
+     <function>sprintf</function>.
+    </simpara>
+    <simpara>
+     Operates as <function>fprintf</function> but accepts an array of
+     arguments, rather than a variable number of arguments.
+    </simpara>
+    <simpara>
+     Returns the length of the outputted string.
+    </simpara>
+    <simpara>
+     See also: <function>printf</function>,
+     <function>sprintf</function>,
+     <function>sscanf</function>, <function>fscanf</function>, 
+     <function>vsprintf</function>, and
+     <function>number_format</function>.
+    </simpara>
+   </refsect1>
+   <refsect1>
+    <title>Examples</title>
+    <para>
+     <example>
+      <title><function>vfprintf</function>: zero-padded integers</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+if (!($fp = fopen('date.txt', 'w')))
+    return;
+
+vfprintf($fp, "%04d-%02d-%02d", array($year, $month, $day));
+// will write the formatted ISO date to date.txt
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+   </refsect1>
+  </refentry>
+
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