sprintf is it safe to use?

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Daniel Martelli
Daniel Martelli on 3 Sep 2020
Answered: Bruno Luong on 3 Sep 2020
Is it safe to use the code sprintf? because i was reading something and it said that sprintf is not safe to use
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KSSV
KSSV on 3 Sep 2020
Share the link where there was a warning.
per isakson
per isakson on 3 Sep 2020
"sprintf is not safe to use" in what programming language?

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Bruno Luong
Bruno Luong on 3 Sep 2020
It's not safe for C where strings are 0 terminated.
But for MATLAB the length is inside an internal (mxArray) structure, so it's totally safe.

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