On 09/07/2020 15.26, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
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>> On Jul 09 2020, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
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>>> Is there a format (or other function) that lets me
>>> print strings without an \0 terminator using an explicit length arg instead?
>>
>> Use the precision.
>
> Looking at that now but have a hard time figuring how to use it, can you give
> me an example?
Exactly as you'd do in userspace:
printf("%.*s\n", len, buf)
Of course, vsnprintf() will still stop if it encounters a nul byte
within those first len bytes in buf. And you need len to have type int,
so you may need a cast if you have a size_t or ssize_t or whatnot.
Rasmus
