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From: moore@prefect.uucp (Peter Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf and variable length string format (asterisk)
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 19:24:43 EST
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Lines: 10

what you want is:

	printf("%.*s", i, string);

In a declaration of the form %10.5s, the 10 is the minimum width that the
string will take, being padded if necessary.  The 5 is the maximum number
of characters from the string that will be printed.


	Peter Moore