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From: fenn@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Fennell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fscanf & EOF
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.213431.9260@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:34:31 GMT
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <NEWBERRY.91Feb11114703@illyria.nmsu.edu> 
	newberry@nmsu.edu (Jeff Newberry) writes:
>
>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".

If your delimiter is a character, it shouldn't be.  &delimiter will
work only if you are lucky enough to have (&delimiter)+1 empty, or
empty-able because it will get the '\0' terminating your 1 character
string.