Re: bug in sscanf (scanf)?

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From: Nicholas J. Simicich;?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1988 23:40

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In article <331@zeus.hf.intel.com> martin@zeus.hf.intel.com (Martin Wilde) writes:
>  I have a small fragment of code that does not work on V.3.2 386 UNIX. 
>  The problem appears to be in sscanf (scanf).   The following fragment of
>  code shows the problem.
 .....
>  	(void) sscanf(optarg, "%d %s %s %s %255[^\0]", &times, s1, s2, s3, s4);

The bug is actually in the representation of a string in C, of course
(no flames please).   The format string is being passed to sscanf as:

"%d %s %s %s %255[^"

Since the \0 is an end of string character.  So sscanf can't interpret
what you intended.
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Subject: Re: bug in sscanf (scanf)?
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