Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!lharris From: lharris@utgpu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: proper form for fscanf Message-ID: <1987Nov21.144300.4796@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 14:43:00 EST Article-I.D.: gpu.1987Nov21.144300.4796 Posted: Sat Nov 21 14:43:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 23:06:36 EST Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services Lines: 8 Checksum: 26018 Could someone please help !.. How does fscanf actually work when assignment is suppressed with the "*" character. Does it still return the number of matched or assigned elements. I'm having trouble detecting EOF when using microsoft C ver 3.00 and using the function fscanf and I get the error "null pointer assigned" although there are no assignments made in this scanf. thanks .leonard