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From: ctl8588@rigel.tamu.edu (LAUGHLIN, CHET)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Quick Stream Field hack
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Date: 20 Oct 90 04:31:51 GMT
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Maybe someof you already know this, but there is a quick way to read
in string fields from a stream.  Simple use fscanf with the [^XYZ]
format (look it up..d:)  where X, Y and Z are end-of-field characters.
I hope this saves someone a sleepless night.  I can now do in two lines
what use to take me 10 or so....and it only took me 5 years to stumble
apon it while reading the run-time library manuals (what a dedicated
guy! d:)

For example, one can use the following to 'type' a DOS file...

while(!feof(fh))
{
   fscanf(fh,"[^\n] ",tempstr);
   printf("%s\n",tempstr);
}

WARNING!!! It is important to have the white space after the end bracket.
If your end-of-field is not a white space I'm not sure what you would
have to replace the space with......

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| Chet Laughlin                  CTL8588@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU         |
|   "I have no opinions as I          (128.194.4.4)             |
|    do not exist, my lawyers                                   |
|    told me so."                                               |
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