sscanf and scanf behave differently

[effbiae]

is sscanf meant not to consume chars? run this program:

/*ss.c*/
int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{char buf[3];
int i;for(i=0;i<3;i++)
{printf("ss: %d %s\n",sscanf(argv[1],"%2s",buf),buf);
printf(" s: %d %s\n",scanf("%2s",buf),buf);
}}


with the command:

$ gcc ss.c && echo 1234567890 |./a.out 1234567890
ss: 1 12
s: 1 12
ss: 1 12
s: 1 34
ss: 1 12
s: 1 56

note that the progress of ss differs to that of s.

kind regards,


jack

 

[Chris Dollin]

is sscanf meant not to consume chars?

Yes.

 

[Keith Thompson]

is sscanf meant not to consume chars? run this program:

[snip]

scanf() reads from stdin. If some input has already been read, it
won't be read again (unless you use ungetc()).

sscanf() starts scanning from the beginning of the string you pass to
it. It doesn't keep track internally of what it did last time. If
you wnat sscanf() to start scanning from the middle of a string, you
need to pass it a pointer into the middle of the string.