Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!wucs1!wucs2!adiron!jdp From: jdp@adiron.UUCP (Powell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Curious Behaviour of "sscanf" Summary: The manual says: Keywords: sscanf, c compilers. Message-ID: <382@adiron.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 16:25:48 GMT References: <236@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM> Organization: PAR Technology, New Hartford, NY Lines: 10 According to the "BUGS" section in scanf, the success of literal matches and suppressed assignments is not directly determinable. I would say the behavior indicated is correct: two (2) conversions were successfully completed. Perhaps but not likely, errno is set to indicate that an inconsistency was found. John D. Powell PAR Technology