On Fri, Feb 26 2016, Jessica Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

> @@ -2714,6 +2718,57 @@ int vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list 
> args)
>                       num++;
>               }
>               continue;
> +             /*
> +              * Warning: This implementation of the '[' conversion specifier
> +              * deviates from its glibc counterpart in the following ways:
> +              * (1) It does NOT support ranges i.e. '-' is NOT a special 
> character
> +              * (2) It cannot match the closing bracket ']' itself
> +              * (3) A field width is required
> +              * (4) '%*[' (discard matching input) is currently not supported
> +              *
> +              * Example usage:
> +              * ret = sscanf("00:0a:95","%2[^:]:%2[^:]:%2[^:]", buf1, buf2, 
> buf3);
> +              * if (ret < 3)
> +              *    // etc..
> +              */
> +             case '[':
> +             {
> +                     char *s = (char *)va_arg(args, char *);
> +                     DECLARE_BITMAP(set, 256) = {0};
> +                     unsigned int len = 0;
> +                     bool negate = (*fmt == '^');
> +
> +                     /* field width is required */
> +                     if (field_width == -1)
> +                             return num;
> +
> +                     if (negate)
> +                             ++fmt;
> +
> +                     for ( ; *fmt && *fmt != ']'; ++fmt, ++len)
> +                             set_bit((u8)*fmt, set);
> +
> +                     /* no ']' or no character set found */
> +                     if (!*fmt || !len)
> +                             return num;
> +                     ++fmt;
> +

I think it might be useful to be able to do [^] to match any sequence of
characters. If the user passed [] the code below won't match anything,
so we'll return num anyway. In other words, I'd just omit the test for
empty character set. Other than that, LGTM.

Rasmus

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