On 04/09/2013 07:09 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Yes it is tolerant. A single space in the format strings reads and ignores all
> white space at that spot.
Forgot to say thank you! This is useful to know. :-)
On 04/09/2013 07:09 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I suggest you put a space before the first %s as well.
I actually strip the leading/trailing whitespace from the line before this
point, so it should be unnecessary.
On 04/09/2013 04:42 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:> Hello all,
> formattedRead(s, "%s %s %s", &var1, &var2, &var3);
>
> ... but is this tolerant of arbitrary differences in the whitespace
between
> variables? (e.g. it might be 2 spaces not 1; or a tab; or ...)
Yes it is tolerant. A s
Hello all,
A bit of a naive question here as text processing isn't my forte ...
Suppose I have a data file containing whitespace-separated variables, i.e.
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
10 11 12
...etc.
Naively it's easy to do something like (having got a stripped string of the
line),
