On 12/25/13 1:06 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 12/25/2013 12:43 PM, Gordon wrote:

 > -- in C --
 > char a[100] = {0};
 > chat *input = "hello world 42";
 > sscanf(input, "%s", &a);
 > -- in D --
 > string a;
 > string input = "hello world 42";
 > formattedRead(input,"%s", &a);
 > -----------
 >
 > In "C", the variable "a" would contain only "hello";
 > In "D", the variable "a" would contain "hello world 42";
 >
 > BUT,
 > If the format string would be "%s %s %d" (and we had three variables),
 > then "formattedRead()" would behave exactly like "sscanf()".

That is by design. Since a string can contain space characters, the
normal behavior is to read everything as a part of the the string. scanf
is defined differently.

Yah, that's intentional. scanf has its usefulness slashed to a fraction because of the way it handles strings. People added %[...] to compensate for that; I chose to just fix it.

Andrei


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