On 14/12/2022 02:18, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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_…
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!
Yup. I suppose we could make up another flag … ‘@’ isn’t used for
anything …
'@' isn't included in C's basic character set though. '&' is available.
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