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From: newberry@nmsu.edu (Jeff Newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fscanf & EOF
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Date: 11 Feb 91 18:47:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: gls@novavax.UUCP's message of 11 Feb 91 15:11:42 GMT


>Would some kind soul care to illuminate for me why this code dumps core?

>	 while ( (fscanf(input,"%8s%1s%2s", part_number, delimiter, 
>		  part_class)) && (feof(input)) ) 


How are the arguments defined?  If they are all defined as arrays of
characters, then I don't know why it core dumps.  If "delimiter" is
defined as a charater, then you need "&delimiter".

Also, I assume you want to put (!feof(input))?

I hope this helps.

Jeff Newberry
newberry%nmsu.edu