From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: Scanf function
Date: 22 Oct 1997 18:56:38 GMT
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On 20 Oct 1997 18:01:27 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Br5an (br5an AT aol DOT com)
wrote: 

:    As per previous responce scanf can leave some unwanted codes in the input
:  buffer. (010 is a line-feed).

No flame intended (it wasn't so long ago that I didn't know this...), but
be careful ;). 010 written in a C program has the (decimal) value 8. 
'\010' is character number 8, or backspace, not linefeed. I think the
original poster didn't understand this, though, and meant the returned
character was number 10.

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george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk