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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C scanf question
Message-ID: <5660047@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 21:45:20 GMT
References: <19915@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> 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", ...);

> 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

I can't say what is specifically wrong here, but I can tell you a
better way to do this:  Use fgets() to read the line and then use
sscanf() to read the line read by fgets().  The scanf() family is ill
suited to parsing lines.
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