doesn't take numbers

[Linas Vepstas]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:07:19AM -0400, James LewisMoss was heard to remark:
>  James> [root@grizzly test]# foo sscanf failed [root@grizzly test]#
> 
> In the foo.c file can you change the %lld to %qd and try to run it
> again?

No one ever likes this when I say it, but ... in my experience, 
sscanf never quite works as well as one might think it should.
By contrast, finding the begining of a numeric string and passing it 
to atof, atod, atoll in this case, always works like a charm.
Note you don't have to terminate; if there is ascii garbage following
the string, its ignored.

--linas

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