Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 17:13:41 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <199905062054.PAA15797@darwin.sfbr.org> (message from Jeff
	Williams on Thu, 6 May 1999 15:54:44 -0500 (CDT))
Subject: Re: OT: skip remainder of input line following `#' ?
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> The recent exchange regarding fflush(stdin) got me wondering if there
> is an equally clever way (i.e., using the scanf format specifications)
> to skip the remainder of an input record if a # symbol is encountered
> (e.g., so that comments could be appended to the end of fixed (except
> for white space) format data records).

What I always do is read in a whole line at a time with fgets(), then
parse it with sscanf().  You can use strchr(string, '#') to find any
'#' and set it to '\0' instead, before calling sscanf.