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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ANSI draft interpretation question: scanf("%*n", ...
Message-ID: <11879@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jan 90 01:52:43 GMT
References: <21623@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <21623@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>  Does `%*n' write to anything, or is the `assignment' suppressed?

The paragraph around line 40 on page 136 of the December draft makes it
clear that the result of the conversion for the n specifier is subject
to assignment suppression by *.  (Yes, there IS a conversion, just no
input operation.)