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Re: sscanf error checking

From John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: sscanf error checking
Date 2016-12-14 15:58 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <o2rq72$de$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <o2rp71$3e7$1@dont-email.me>

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In <o2rp71$3e7$1@dont-email.me> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> The same when scanning "123GARBAGE". It's just stopping when it sees 
> something that can't be part of the number without reporting anything 
> amiss.

Why would it report anything amiss?  You told it to look for a number,
which it found.

-- 
John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
gordon@panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
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sscanf error checking BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-14 15:42 +0000
  Re: sscanf error checking John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2016-12-14 15:58 +0000
    Re: sscanf error checking Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-12-14 11:14 -0500
  Re: sscanf error checking gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-12-14 16:11 +0000
    Re: sscanf error checking BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-14 17:51 +0000
      Re: sscanf error checking gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-12-14 18:09 +0000
      Re: sscanf error checking Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-14 19:49 +0000
        Re: sscanf error checking BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-14 20:43 +0000
  Re: sscanf error checking Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-14 16:40 +0000
  Re: sscanf error checking Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 09:34 -0800
  Re: sscanf error checking Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-12-14 14:52 -0600
    Re: sscanf error checking supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 07:24 -0800
      Re: sscanf error checking Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-15 11:26 -0800
        Re: sscanf error checking Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-15 15:35 -0800
          Re: sscanf error checking Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-15 16:28 -0800
            Re: sscanf error checking Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-12-15 16:37 -0800
        Re: sscanf error checking supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 16:38 -0800
      Re: sscanf error checking raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-15 20:20 +0000
        Re: sscanf error checking Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-15 12:33 -0800
  sscanf error checking asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2016-12-16 01:49 -0800
    sscanf error checking asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2016-12-16 01:53 -0800

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