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List:       9fans
Subject:    Re: [9fans] Why doesn't bio have bscanf?
From:       Paul Lalonde <plalonde () telus ! net>
Date:       2005-09-23 15:59:20
Message-ID: E8146160-EEAD-4C1D-8AA1-0B53E90EE1EA () telus ! net
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On 23-Sep-05, at 8:46 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
>
> how about just Brdstr() followed by sscanf()?
>
>

Because the sscanf pattern may run out of buffer - a scanf call can  
read multiple lines, for example.
It's really just plain ugly.

The correct argument against it, credit to Russ, is error checking  
and recovery - we should be using real parsers for the ugly little  
files that are currently being munged with fscanf.

Paul

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