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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: scanf question
Message-ID: <9670@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Feb 89 23:43:05 GMT
References: <9641@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9641@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> johns@wega.caltech.edu.UUCP (John Salmon) writes:
>Which is correct?  Is count set to 0 or 1 by:
>   count = sscanf("10", " %d", &i);

It's set to 1.

Generally, the properties of fprintf and fscanf in the proposed standard
were checked against existing UNIX System V behavior, since AT&T would
have vigorously protested having to change this existing behavior.