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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Talking about scanf (was Re: What's so bad about scanf anyway???)
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Date: 22 Nov 90 10:22:47 GMT
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Oh yes...

Another thing in scanf's favor over gets...

While reading the new and improved 10 commandments, I was reminded of
gets' nasty habit of taking any size line given to it.

But I suppose fgets takes care of that... you just have to whack off
the endline character somehow.
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