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"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
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>     I did read the man pages but evedently didn't understand them. The man 
> page said fscanf returns EOF thus it is in my code. EOF on error and end of 
> file the way I understand it.

Ok, fair enough.

But in the successful case, it returns the number of input items
assigned.  For example, if you tell it to read 2 items, and it's only
able to read 1 item, then it will return 1, not EOF.

You should read and understand the documentation before *either* writing
a call to a function *or* speculating here what the function does.

Upthread, you wrote:

| Didn't know that. ok. Does it only return 0 or 1? Or the number of
| bytes read like fread? That's what I'm trying to treat this like.

That was pure guesswork that could have been avoided if you'd read
the man page.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
    Will write code for food.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-02 22:50 -0400
  Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-02 22:53 -0400
  Re: code Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2012-09-02 21:21 -0700
  Re: code Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-02 22:23 -0700
    Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 06:56 -0400
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  Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-03 11:51 +0100
    Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 09:02 -0400
      Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-03 15:02 +0100
        Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-03 17:20 +0100
        Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 14:33 -0400
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      Re: code Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-03 13:11 -0700
        Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 17:41 -0400
          Re: code Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-03 14:53 -0700
            Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-03 23:10 +0100
          Re: code "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2012-09-03 16:56 -0500
            Re: code Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-03 18:27 -0700
        Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 17:50 -0400
          Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 17:54 -0400
            Re: code Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2012-09-03 15:12 -0700
            Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-03 23:23 +0100
              Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 18:42 -0400
                Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 19:11 -0400
                Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-04 00:16 +0100
                Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 20:01 -0400
                Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-04 02:07 +0100
                Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-03 21:17 -0400
                Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-04 02:24 +0100
                Re: code Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2012-09-03 20:55 -0700
                Re: code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-04 11:16 +0100
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            Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-04 18:35 -0400
              Re: code Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-09-04 18:49 -0500
                Re: code "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2012-09-04 20:56 -0400
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