Thread: why does they use this kind of scanf..

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    why does they use this kind of scanf..

    i was told that the feilds are not separated (in each line the feilds are sticked together)

    why they say fscanf(file,"%29[^$]%10 ...

    why not just fscanf(file,"%29%10 ...

    why they say (or till char '$')
    ??

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    Who are they and what do they want to do?
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    people who wrote a solution to that question
    they say read 29 chars or till char $
    why not just "read 29 chars"

    the feild are sticked together
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    Quote Originally Posted by transgalactic2
    people who wrote a solution to that question
    They are wrong. The answer is 42.

    So, what's the question?
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    I'm pretty sure that $ has a special meaning (in fact, I'd be very surprised if $ doesn't mean end of line).

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