I am having a hard time in manipulating strings while writing module for linux. My problem is that I have a int Array[10] with different values in it. I need to produce a string to be able send to the buffer in my_read procedure. If my array is {0,1,112,20,4,0,0,0,0,0} then my output should be: 0:(0) 1:-(1) 2:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(112) 3:--------------------(20) 4:----(4) 5:(0) 6:(0) 7:(0) 8:(0) 9:(0) when I try to place the above strings in char[] arrays some how weird characters end up there here is the code int my_read (char *page, char **start, off_t off, int count, int *eof, void *data) { int len; if (off > 0){ *eof =1; return 0; } /* get process tree */ int task_dep=0; /* depth of a task from INIT*/ get_task_tree(&init_task,task_dep); char tmp[1024]; char A[ProcPerDepth[0]],B[ProcPerDepth[1]],C[ProcPerDepth[2]],D[ProcPerDepth[3]],E[ProcPerDepth[4]],F[ProcPerDepth[5]],G[ProcPerDepth[6]],H[ProcPerDepth[7]],I[ProcPerDepth[8]],J[ProcPerDepth[9]]; int i=0; for (i=0;i<1024;i++){ tmp[i]='\0';} memset(A, '\0', sizeof(A));memset(B, '\0', sizeof(B));memset(C, '\0', sizeof(C)); memset(D, '\0', sizeof(D));memset(E, '\0', sizeof(E));memset(F, '\0', sizeof(F)); memset(G, '\0', sizeof(G));memset(H, '\0', sizeof(H));memset(I, '\0', sizeof(I));memset(J, '\0', sizeof(J)); printk("A:%s\nB:%s\nC:%s\nD:%s\nE:%s\nF:%s\nG:%s\nH:%s\nI:%s\nJ:%s\n",A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J); memset(A,'-',sizeof(A)); memset(B,'-',sizeof(B)); memset(C,'-',sizeof(C)); memset(D,'-',sizeof(D)); memset(E,'-',sizeof(E)); memset(F,'-',sizeof(F)); memset(G,'-',sizeof(G)); memset(H,'-',sizeof(H)); memset(I,'-',sizeof(I)); memset(J,'-',sizeof(J)); printk("A:%s\nB:%s\nC:%s\nD:%s\nE:%s\nF:%s\nG:%s\nH:%s\nI:%s\nJ:%\n",A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J); len = sprintf(page,"0:%s(%d)\n1:%s(%d)\n2:%s(%d)\n3:%s(%d)\n4:%s(%d)\n5:%s(%d)\n6:%s(%d)\n7:%s(%d)\n8:%s(%d)\n9:%s(%d)\n",A,ProcPerDepth[0],B,ProcPerDepth[1],C,ProcPerDepth[2],D,ProcPerDepth[3],E,ProcPerDepth[4],F,ProcPerDepth[5],G,ProcPerDepth[6],H,ProcPerDepth[7],I,ProcPerDepth[8],J,ProcPerDepth[9]); return len; }