From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 26 06:49:42 2000
Subject: fscanf
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 06:50:03 -0600 (CST)

On 14-May-1999, Francesco Potorti` <F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it> wrote:

| I  am not  wrong, there is   no way to  tell  how many parameters  a fscanf
| function call has read, when the "C"  argument is used.   This is a serious
| shortcoming.

Hmm.  Any ideas about how should this be fixed?

| However, the docs say:
|    When a "matching failure" occurs, `scanf' returns immediately,
| leaving the first non-matching character as the next character to be
| read from the stream, and `scanf' returns all the items that were
| successfully converted.
| 
| I think that this is not true for the "C" version of the scanf function.

I think I've fixed this problem in the development sources.

Thanks,

jwe



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