From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
To: Linux C Programming List <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A safe scanf function
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:59:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602280959.21099.samjnaa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17411.7908.386568.805492@cerise.gclements.plus.com>
Monday, 27 February 2006 21:16 samaye tvayaa likhitam:
> And scanf() isn't "unsafe"; it just doesn't do what you want in your
> particular application. There are plenty of situations where scanf()
> does the right thing and getline() + sscanf() doesn't; e.g.:
OK, so scanf does have its own applications.
I would like to place on record that I used fgets and sscanf and the problem I
was experiencing was totally removed.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-26 8:17 A safe scanf function Shriramana Sharma
2006-02-26 15:34 ` Glynn Clements
2006-02-27 15:15 ` Shriramana Sharma
2006-02-27 15:46 ` Glynn Clements
2006-02-28 4:29 ` Shriramana Sharma [this message]
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