--- Yiannis <odysseus.lost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 22/09/06, David Neèas (Yeti) <yeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:05:42PM +0100, Yiannis wrote: > > > Hi, a very basic question but I ve been looking in all the api to find > > the > > > answer.... Are there any equivalent functions in glib for scanf and > > sscanf > > > and where please? Thx. > > > > And what's wrong with scanf() and sscanf()? That is why you > > are looking for GLib replacements of these functions? > > > Oh no problem at all I was just wondering and I just wanted to keep glib > structures as frequently as possible... I thought that since there is a > g_print there might be a g_scan and something equivalent for sscanf > > Yeti > > > > > > -- > > Anonyms eat their boogers. > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list mailing list > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > > > -- > -- Yiannis > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > A very very long time ago (s)scanf used to behave erraticaly in case of input syntaxt errors, for example, if one tried to enter not a number when the expected entry was, say, a floating point number. I remember it was endlessly looping. So I had to write my own replacement. Probably, it's not the case anymore, but I'd write a small program to check if I were to use (s)scanf again. --Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
