Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems with scanf()
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.173304.26623@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct12.154156.25096@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Oct20.001637.28244@unislc.uucp> <324@brat.UUCP> <1204@mti.mti.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 17:33:04 GMT

In article <1204@mti.mti.com> adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy) writes:
>Also, does Henry Spencer's commandment about checking the return values of all
>functions for errors apply to sscanf()? ...
>  if (sscanf(str, "%d %d", &x, &y) != 2) {

So long as you are checking the return value, and not just blindly assuming
that sscanf will work, that satisfies the intent of the commandment.
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