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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: C is not a low level language
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> writes:

>> In case you didn't notice, the terminating null is not stored
>
> Really ?    Good luck with "printf" -ing such a non-terminated string than. 
> :-)

You can safely use printf with such non-strings:

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <string.h>
   
  int main(void)
  {
       char s[11];
       strncpy(s, "hello world", sizeof s);
       printf("%.*s\n", (int)sizeof s, s);
  }

(Your reply breaks a sentence to give it a meaning that was no intended,
but even so, I think it's useful to point out the printf can be used
with some non-strings.)

-- 
Ben.