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| From | John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Scanf Problem |
| Date | 2011-07-07 04:29 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <iv3cnl$b0p$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <eab46c07-89fa-43e1-a2ec-b44b69fcb80b@x41g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> |
In <eab46c07-89fa-43e1-a2ec-b44b69fcb80b@x41g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> LJ <djtheshowstopper@gmail.com> writes:
> K&R says that the scanf format string may contain ordinary characters,
> which are expected to match the next non-white space character of the
> input stream.
> However when I am reading the date given as 25 /
> 12 / 1988 using scanf( "%d/%d/%d", &day, &month,
> &year ); it is only reading the day. Why is it not reading the month
> and year??
Probably because your input contains spaces which the format string wasn't
told to look for.
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Scanf Problem LJ <djtheshowstopper@gmail.com> - 2011-07-06 21:19 -0700
Re: Scanf Problem John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-07-07 04:29 +0000
Re: Scanf Problem LJ <djtheshowstopper@gmail.com> - 2011-07-06 23:40 -0700
Re: Scanf Problem Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2011-07-07 07:28 +0000
Re: Scanf Problem Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-07-07 02:00 -0700
Re: Scanf Problem lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2011-07-10 15:32 -0400
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