Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:17:22 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 10 Apr 2001 11:35:24 GMT
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jack Klein wrote:
> 
> >> There is nothing that scanf() can do that fgets() followed by other
> >> functions, including sscanf(), can't do as well or better.
> 
> > This argument goes both ways: scanf and fgets+sscanf are functionally
> > equivalent.  A C programmer should master both, IMHO.
> 
> Actually, I'd claim that both the above are subtly wrong. 

That's always so with one-sentence assertions about a sufficiently
complicated issues (including your own claim, Hans-Bernhard ;-).