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From: dlbres14@pc.usl.edu (Brumley David M)
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Subject: Re: Can pre-ANSI C Preprocessor handle symbolic constants in strings?
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Date: 12 Jun 91 15:20:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: rjohnson@shell.com's message of 10 Jun 91 16:42:52 GMT

In article <RJOHNSON.91Jun10114252@olorin.shell.com> rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson) writes:
   In compensation, I illustrate your suggestion:

   char fmt[10];

   /* The first two %'s make one % in the string */
   sprintf(fmt, "%%%ds", FIELDSIZE);
   scanf(fmt, buffer);

   which is, dare I say, standard, portable, and correct?

Yes, I just can't believe you have to build the format string
dynamically with pre-ANSI compilers.
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David M. Brumley
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