From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: jesse@ajp-services.net
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help: need to prevent infinite loop
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:20:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17363.23676.751524.480464@cerise.gclements.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CC996D.4050100@ajp-services.net>
Jesse Ruffin wrote:
> The problem is a general one that will affect many non digit characters.
>
> scanf() on my computer returns 0, an early match error. But what you
> probably don't expect, and I can't find in the info or man pages, is
> that glibc scanf seems to unget() the input that it has read.
It doesn't "unget" anything, it simply doesn't consume anything.
More generally, [f]scanf() only consumes the data which actually
matches the fields in the format string. The return value tells you
how many fields were assigned; if the return value is zero, nothing is
assigned and nothing is consumed.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-22 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-17 4:36 Help: need to prevent infinite loop Shriramana Sharma
2006-01-17 7:14 ` Jesse Ruffin
2006-01-18 16:24 ` Shriramana Sharma
2006-01-18 16:33 ` Steve Graegert
2006-01-22 10:20 ` Glynn Clements [this message]
2006-01-22 11:28 ` Jesse Ruffin
2006-01-23 5:57 ` Jesse Ruffin
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