G'Day David,

-=> Quoting David Nugent to Frank Adam <=-

 FA> I mean detecting  on an empty line.
 FA> That was the primary reason why i stopped using it.

 DN> That depends entirely on what your parser string is, but yes, this is
 DN> indeed  one of the problems.  You should understand that scanf() 
 DN> and family is for *parsing data*, not providing a user 
Interesting how two simple words can jolt the brain sometimes,i've never 
looked at scanf() in that specific way, makes more sense now.
 
 DN> if (fgets(buffer,buflen,fp)==NULL)
 DN> abort ...
 DN> if ((p=strchr(buffer,'\n'))  /* chop off newline */
 DN> *p = '\0';
 DN> if (sscanf(buffer,pattern,args...)==number_of_parse) {
 DN> /* do your processing */
 DN> }
Hmm, maybe it's not too late to start using it :)



  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au)

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