Re: question regarding scanw errors

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 04:54:10PM -0500, Ruslan Nabioullin wrote:
> Hello, the man page of scanw states "vwscanw  returns  ERR on
> failure..."; because scanw is an IO function, obviously failure
> implies "system" errors.  However, based on superficial testing,
> scanw returns ERR in case of the input, before the newline, being
> "blank" (empty or consisting of merely whitespace), instead of the
> intuitively-expected 0.
> 
> My question is, how does one distinguish whether a "system" error
> occurred or the input was "blank", upon return of ERR?

essentially the same way one deals with scanf - prefer functions
that work from a buffer where you already know something of its
contents, e.g., sscanf.  In both cases (scanf/scanw), the return
code tries to do too much.

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