On Thu, 2024-07-11 at 13:01 -0400, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 01:08:39PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-07-10 at 18:54 -0400, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > > > > > we should probably use "part%u-%n" so we can't match a "-" before > > > the > > > number. > > > > That doesn't work, %u accepts negative numbers, too > > (https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf) > > That's why I use int and check whether the result is positive. > > Huh? I learned something new. I actually find that kind of annoying, I know, I was also surprised when I found out. But strtoul() behaves like this, too. In C, it's perfectly ok to write unsigned int n = -1; Maybe that's how we should look at it. Martin
