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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Scanf question
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Date: 9 Oct 90 23:27:04 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Doctor! It hurts when I do this!

Don't use scanf if you have the slightest doubt about its ability
to solve the problem. For this one I'd use regexp or equivalents
if I wanted to be lazy, or strchr() in a loop if I wanted to do it
right.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.   'U`
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