Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 10:58:01 +0200 (CEST)
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From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject: (fwd) Re: sscanf's return value
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Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn AT null DOT net> wrote:
> : Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> :> 2. Why is unavailability of input characters stronger than matching
> :> failure? To me "" can't match anything, so we do have a potential
> :> matching failure.
> : Would you also say that an empty file can't match anything?
> Yes. But in that case we really have an input situation so the input
> failure makes sense then. sscanf() don't input anything. Everything is
> present in memory already.

There is still an input process, namely provision of data
from the specified string.

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