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From: rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard Klappal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: QUES: fprintf - include white space
Message-ID: <1354@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 21:48:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1354
Posted: Wed Jul 29 21:48:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 04:43:46 EDT
References: <11084@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard Klappal)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <11084@decwrl.DEC.COM> williamsm@armory.dec.com writes:
>
>    My question concerns the function fscanf() on the vax. How do I
>  use fscanf() in such a way that it bring in the specified number of
>  characters including white space (more importantly ' '), with out 
>  terminating the input to each field because of the white space.
	...
>                                 MELVIN WILLIAMSMS
>                                   ARMORY::WILLIAMSM

Can't guarantee that this will work on the vax, but my berserkelyoid
compiler will accept (and the SysV documentation agrees)

	char	string[10+1];	/* 10 chars plus terminating null */
	...
	fscanf(fp, "%10c", string);
	...

to read in 10 characters, regardless of whitespace, control codes,
etc.  
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