From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: sprintf() string length?
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:34:27 +0000
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Ruiter de M wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Foster (jgf1 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
> : The "fprintf" command will return the number of characters output,
> 
> I thought it returns the number of correctly parsed arguments after
> the format string. But my Solaris man pages say you are right.

Close.  scanf() returns the number of arguments it successfully read. 
You just got it backwards.  :)

My idea for a solution to the problem would be to create a buffer large
enough to store at least part of the long string and use sprintf() one
chunk at a time.  I can't, offhand, imagine any situation where this
would be necessary, though...

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