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How to Use Snprintf

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Comments (1)

hdjrudni · 29m ago

This sentence is confusing:

> I have size_with_nul because snprintf man pages say

> The functions snprintf() and vsnprintf() write at most size bytes (including the terminating null byte (‘\0’)) to str.

If 'size' includes the null byte, why do we have to add 1?