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Article #5735Re: scanf question
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 14:20
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 14:20
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In article <9676@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> johns@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (John Salmon) writes:
>"...A white-space directive fails if no white-space can be found."
>K&R 2nd edition says that "white-space directives are ignored"
>Which is correct?
Neither. A white-space directive is executed by reading input up to
the first non-white-space character (which remains unread), or until
no more characters can be read. It never fails, by definition.
> Is count set to 0 or 1 by:
> count = sscanf("10", " %d", &i);
sscanf returns 1 in this case.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: scanf question Message-ID: <9697@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 23 Feb 89 14:20:46 GMT References: <9676@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 13