From: "Martin Ambuhl" <mambuhl AT tiac DOT net>
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:07:23 -0400
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Adam Brown wrote in message <35E976E1 DOT 3B00 AT geocities DOT com>...
|> fgets() is a good deal safer than gets().
|> sscanf() does a hell of a better job than sprintf() at handling
input.
|
|In what way?
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Which assertion don't you understand?
1) It is always safer not to let a function wildly overwrite memory.
2) Input is always done better by input functions than by output
functions.