Rhodri James wrote:
scanf (or rather sscanf) always looks like a
brilliant idea right up until I come to use it, at which point I almost
always do something else that gives me better control.
My experience is similar, but that's largely because error detection
and reporting with the C version
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 9:41 AM Andrew Barnert wrote:
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> On Jun 28, 2019, at 16:10, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > The %s marker would accept everything up to the next literal text. So
> > if you say "%s@%s", it would read up to the at sign. The second part
> > of the proposal would be doing
On Jun 28, 2019, at 16:10, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> The %s marker would accept everything up to the next literal text. So
> if you say "%s@%s", it would read up to the at sign. The second part
> of the proposal would be doing that, though; the "%s" handler would
> simply accept everything and
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 9:02 AM Andrew Barnert wrote:
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> On Jun 28, 2019, at 12:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > 1) For all the different types of object that can be read (integer,
> > string, JSON blob, etc), have a function that will read one, stop when
> > it's done, and report both the
On Jun 28, 2019, at 12:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> 1) For all the different types of object that can be read (integer,
> string, JSON blob, etc), have a function that will read one, stop when
> it's done, and report both the parsed object and the point where it
> stopped parsing.
For a
On 6/27/19 1:58 PM, James Lu wrote:
On Jun 26, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
The main advantage of sscanf over a regular expression is that it
performs a single left-to-right pass over the format string and the
target string simultaneously, with no backtracking. (This is also its
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 3:24 AM Anders Hovmöller wrote:
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> > On 28 Jun 2019, at 19:01, Rhodri James wrote:
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> > On 27/06/2019 18:58, James Lu wrote:
> >>> On Jun 26, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> >>> The main advantage of sscanf over a regular expression is that it
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> On 28 Jun 2019, at 19:01, Rhodri James wrote:
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> On 27/06/2019 18:58, James Lu wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>>> The main advantage of sscanf over a regular expression is that it
>>> performs a single left-to-right pass over the format string and the
On 27/06/2019 18:58, James Lu wrote:
On Jun 26, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
The main advantage of sscanf over a regular expression is that it
performs a single left-to-right pass over the format string and the
target string simultaneously, with no backtracking. (This is also its
> On Jun 26, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> The main advantage of sscanf over a regular expression is that it
> performs a single left-to-right pass over the format string and the
> target string simultaneously, with no backtracking. (This is also its
> main DISadvantage compared
Andrew Barnert writes:
> On Jun 26, 2019, at 21:45, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
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> > Chris Angelico writes:
> >
> >> Then I completely don't understand getself. Can you give an example
> >> of how it would be used? So far, it just seems like an utter total
> >> mess.
> >
> >
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