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From: cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  ugliness in scanf(3)
Message-ID: <191@mplvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 23:58:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 23:58:35 1985
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Reply-To: cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Organization: Marine Physical Laborator of SIO at UCSD
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In article <687@burl.UUCP> geoff@burl.UUCP (geoff) writes:
>
>how about the bottom of page 2 of scanf documentation (V5.2)--
>
>"Scanf conversion terminates at EOF, at the end of the control string, or
>when an input character conflicts with the control string.  In the latter
>case, the offending character is left unread in the input stream."
>
>I can only surmise that you have a different version of the manual --
>it does seem quite clear.
>	geoff sherwood

You're right.  It is quite clear.  Unfortunately, it isn't in the 4.2BSD
manual, the v7 manual, the Decus manual.  Since I have all these and SVR2
too in different places, it's easy to get confused.  I wish I could find
the original stdio document from v6 to see whether that sentence got
dropped along the way, or was recently added to prevent people like me
from provoking discussions unnecessarily.

-- 
	carl lowenstein		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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