On 12/12/2022 02:11, Zack Weinberg wrote:
(Field widths are awkward to use because you have to write them as decimal constants _inside the format string_, which makes them more likely to get out of sync with the actual size of the buffer than, say, the buffer-size argument to ‘fgets’, but this is not a fatal flaw in and of itself.)
It's a shame that scanf's maximum field width couldn't be specified using an integer parameter in the same was as printf's minimum field width, but the '*' flag was already taken!
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