%s

%s may refer to:

C string

• %s, in printf format string
• %s, in scanf format string

System time

• %s, seconds in the strftime format string
• %s, used to check the Unix timestamp

Web browsers and websites

• %s as a smart bookmark marker showing where to insert an argument string
• %s in a quick searchbox is used for customisation for web browsers such as Opera, Chromium and Firefox, After the URL of the (empty) target site searchbox add %s so that the term in the browser searchbox is transferred into the site searchbox