Hi Ian & Zack, On 12/14/22 11:22, Ian Abbott wrote:
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.
Just a curious question from an ignorant: what's the difference between the basic character set and the source character set?
Thanks, Alex
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