What is wrong with this program?
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Sun Aug 18 09:03:18 AEST 1985
>... you are forgetting that the format "%.8s" will cause printf to
>print up to a null or 8 chars max. Unfortunately this style of
>printf can not be used with sizeof for compile time format changes
>without run time code support.
Well, you can always use:
printf("%.*s", sizeof (utmp.ut_name), utmp.ut_name);
or if you want exactly sizeof (utmp.ut_name) characters:
#define NMAX (sizeof (utmp.ut_name))
printf("%-*.*s", NMAX, NMAX, utmp.ut_name);
(The "-" gives "left adjustment"---blank filling at the right.)
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