why do my string only return one char instead whole of my string?

I been trying to figure out to get all of my string to show up.
This code is being worked on my freebsd machine.

here is my code.

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Code:

void send_to_server(sendpattern, p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9)
char sendpattern[512];
///char *p1, *p2, *p3, *p4, *p5, *p6, *p7, *p8, *p9;
char p1[512], p2[512], p3[512], p4[512], p5[512], p6[512], p7[512], p8[512], p9[512];

{
        int success;
        sprintf(out, sendpattern, p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9);
        strcat(out, "\n");
        success = write(sockfd, out, strlen(out));
        if (success < 1)
        reconnect_to_server(1);
        return;
}




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            for (j = 0; j < width; j++)
                if (i + j < len)
                    printf("%c", isprint(str[j]) ? str[j] : nonprint_char);
                    if (useirc) {
                    send_to_server("PRIVMSG %s :%c", IRCCHAN, isprint(str[j]) ? str[j] : nonprint_char);
                    ///say("%c", isprint(str[j]) ? str[j] : nonprint_char);
                    }

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printf works fine

but

send_to_server is not working as it should be


the message appear like this

&
T

instead of
&blah
The cookie have blue frosting.

the format specifier for printing strings is %s... it appears that is the problem

well it have to be %c in my program

well then you will need to cycle through the array using a loop
so you can print the characters one at a time - here's an example:

Code:

int i;
char string [20] = "something";

for (i=0; i<20; i++)
{
      printf ("%c", string [i]); /*cycling through the string, one char at a time*/
}

something like that will print ot an entire string... Hope that helps
to some degree.

mmmmmmm

printf works fine.
send_to_server code is problem.