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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: C scanf question
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Date: 17 Jul 89 20:14:07 GMT
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I'm having a problem using fscanf under Lattice 5.02.
I have a file where each line was written with

char flag1='0', flag2='+', line[80];
fprintf(file, "%c%c%s\n", flag1, flag2, line[80]);

I'm trying to read it back into the same variables one line at a time.
I've tried
fscanf(file, "%c%c%s\n", &flag1, &flag2, line);
fscanf(file, "%c%c%s ", ...);
fscanf(file, " %c%c%s", ...);
fscanf(file, "\n%c%c%s", ...);

All of these work on the first line and give me a '\n' in flag1 and a
'0' in flag2 and a '+' in line[0] on
the second and subsequent lines. The lattice library manual states that
the space character will skip newlines, tabs, and spaces, and therefore the
second or third one should be correct. However, it APPEARS as though Lattice
is seeing the first %c and saying I'm not going to skip any whitespace.
I'm well versed in C but usually have avoided the STDIO routines for
various reasons in the past. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
				-- Darren