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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: QUES: fprintf - include white space
Message-ID: <2550024@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 23:55:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  1 23:55:14 1987
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>    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.

Well, you could use fread(buf, 10, 1, fp) to read 10 characters.  If you
need to scan other stuff before and/or after that in the same call, you
could use "%10c" for a format.

Dave Decot
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