On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 11:18:55 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
C's scanf is a poor argument as it uses pointers instead of ref
(and it can't do ref as there is no ref in C :) ). Yet it
doesn't allow to read things in a couple of calls AFAIK. In C
scanf returns number of arguments successfully read not bytes
so there is no way to continue from where it stopped.
BTW it's not documented what formattedRead returns ... just
ouch.
Actually... look up "%n" in sscanf it's wonderful, I use it all
the time.
