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Subject: Re: Potential C problem
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Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 11:53:19 EDT
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The problem is that sscanf is stripping leading zero's. When that's all
you've got, it fails.  By the way, I suspect you wanted to use the string
"%1x" rather than "%x1" in your example, though both have the same problem.