Re: serious sscanf bug

[Andreas Schwab]

Will Styles <address@hidden> writes:

|> program:
|> #include <stdio.h>
|> 
|> int main (void)
|> {
|>         int val;
|>         sscanf ("05", "%02i", &val);
|>         printf ("val = %i\n", val);
|> 
|>         sscanf ("06", "%02i", &val);
|>         printf ("val = %i\n", val);
|> 
|>         sscanf ("07", "%02i", &val);
|>         printf ("val = %i\n", val);
|> 
|>         sscanf ("08", "%02i", &val);
|>         printf ("val = %i\n", val);
|> 
|>         sscanf ("09", "%02i", &val);
|>         printf ("val = %i\n", val);
|> }
|> 
|> output:
|> val = 5
|> val = 6
|> val = 7
|> val = 0
|> val = 0

Correct.

|> what i should get:
|> val = 5
|> val = 6
|> val = 7
|> val = 8
|> val = 9

Wrong.  Look up %i in the manual.

Andreas.

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