#define a char array without null termination in C ++

Question

I am working on an industry security product that requires a very quick launch time. I am trying to follow the industry standard for outputting an ASCII file. To speed up this step of formatting the file, I used #define to create multiple arrays of characters in static memory. Here is a small section, for example:

#define COMTRADE_STATION_ID         "Station Name,Device ID,1999\r\n"
#define COMTRADE_CHANNEL_COUNT      "10,10A,0D\r\n"
#define COMTRADE_FREQUENCY          "60\r\n"
#define COMTRADE_FILE_TYPE          "BINARY\r\n1\r\n"

struct TS_ComtradeConfig
{
    const char StationID[sizeof(COMTRADE_STATION_ID)];
    const char ChannelCount[sizeof(COMTRADE_CHANNEL_COUNT)];
    char Frequency[sizeof(COMTRADE_FREQUENCY)];
    const char FileType[sizeof(COMTRADE_FILE_TYPE)];
};

TS_ComtradeConfig ConfigFile =
{
        {COMTRADE_STATION_ID},
        {COMTRADE_CHANNEL_COUNT},
        {COMTRADE_FREQUENCY},
        {COMTRADE_FILE_TYPE}
};

And here is some basic code that I used to print it out.

for(int nIndex = 0; nIndex < sizeof(ConfigFile); nIndex++)
{
    printf("%c", ((char*)(ConfigFile.StationID))[nIndex]);
}

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Answer 1

:

#define COMTRADE_STATION_ID         "Station Name,Device ID,1999\r\n"
#define COMTRADE_CHANNEL_COUNT      "10,10A,0D\r\n"
#define COMTRADE_FREQUENCY          "60\r\n"
#define COMTRADE_FILE_TYPE          "BINARY\r\n1\r\n"

#define COMTRADE_ALL COMTRADE_STATION_ID COMTRADE_CHANNEL_COUNT COMTRADE_FREQUENCY COMTRADE_FILE_TYPE

    // no struct, plain char array, no intervening nulls (but a trailing one)
char[sizeof(COMTRADE_ALL)] comTradeAll = COMTRADE_ALL; 

Answer 2

for(int nIndex = 0; nIndex < sizeof(ConfigFile); nIndex++)
{
    printf("%c", ((char*)(ConfigFile.StationID))[nIndex]);
} 

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ConfigFile fwrite? :

// Add a -1 to the size to skip the \0
fwrite(ConfigFile.StationID, sizeof(ConfigFile.StationID) - 1, 1, stdout);
fwrite(ConfigFile.ChannelCount, sizeof(ConfigFile.ChannelCount) - 1, 1, stdout);
fwrite(ConfigFile.Frequency, sizeof(ConfigFile.Frequency) - 1, 1, stdout);
fwrite(ConfigFile.FileType, sizeof(ConfigFile.FileType) - , 1, stdout);

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