printf function prints until '\0' is found. Since the SSID is exact 32 and the char array to store is also 32, the print function goes beyond and prints from memory location after the end of the variable. Hence the garbage characters are printed.

I know how printf works and probably why the extra characters are printed. My problems are:

1. From to my understanding 32-byte SSIDs should be supported (they seem to be working with my router, 5 PCs under both Windows and Linux, wireless printer and ESP itself when it comes to connecting). As I said ESP is connecting with the WiFi, but sdk_wifi_station_scan gives me the extra characters which shoudn't be there.
2. Cutting printf format eg. printf("%32s",str); is meant to print only 32 characters from str. This doesn't work, and this fact may be related.

I guess that ssid string is only null terminated if it has fewer then 32 bytes, and for length of 32 it relies on cutting it by "%32s" but i have no idea how to check or repair it.

"%32s" will pad 32 characters (spaces), but it will still print more than 32 characters if the string is longer.
Copy the string into a temporary string and nul-terminate it yourself:

char str[33];
strncpy(str, ssid, 32);
str[32] = '\0';
printf("ssid=[%s]", str);

Ok, so I was mistaken with printf format for cutting.

This doesn't change the fact that sdk_wifi_station_scan gives too long strings for 32 byte SSIDs. I know that I could cut the extra bit elsewhere, but I belive that I shouldn't have to do that, because that's what library is for.

That being said sdk_wifi_station_scan is provided as a binary and I have no idea how to modify it.

Yeah, well. There are weirder things than this one. When I stumbled over this my thought was that the "null terminated string" comment in the struct sdk_station_confg is just wrong. It's an array of bytes, not a string.

Edit: remove scan function I posted here earlier, it was from different SDK. I'll post a copy of my scan function for the esp-open-rtos later.

So it seems that ssids in sdk are null terminated only when less then 32 bytes in length. This leaves the user with limiting ssid's length. That's fine, but then the usages are wrong - two that i know of are wifi_scan example and cgiWifiScan from libesphttpd/util/cgiwifi.c. Example is harmless, but libesphttpd case adds some characters and the characters added may be illegal for JSON and make it unparsable (which happens for me sometimes). To fix this issue I guess I should do PR to https://github.com/nochkin/libesphttpd, right? Or should I PR original libesphttpd https://github.com/Spritetm/libesphttpd