From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 26 06:39:08 2000
Subject: More a feature request than a bug report?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it>
Cc: Octave bugs list <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 06:39:14 -0600 (CST)

On 12-May-1999, Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it> wrote:

| If I understand the manual, octave supports most of scanf(3) input formats,
| but skips  %[.  That format  is *very*  useful, and, as  far as I  know, is
| the only way of making scanf read up to end of line:
| 
| scanf (inf, " %d%[^\n]\n", &i)
| 
| reads the first integer on a line and discrds the rest of the line.
| 
| It would be nice if %[ was there.

I've just written some code to handle this type of conversion.  It
should appear in the CVS archive for the development version of Octave
within the next day or so.

Thanks,

jwe



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