Bint said:

> Hi,
>
> I have a giant string buffer, and I want to print out small chunks of it
> at
> a time. How do I print out, say 20 characters of a string?
>
> Is it like this?
>
> printf("%20s",mystring);
>
> I can change the start point of the string, I just don't know how to tell
> it to only print out X number of characters from it.

printf("%.20s", mystring);

Note the dot in the format specifier.

Covered in K&R2 p244.

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