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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Whaddaya think?
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 03:26:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 01:56:49 +0300, Michael S wrote:

> If you want to preserve you sanity, never use fscanf().

Quoth the man page <https://manpages.debian.org/3/scanf.3.en.html>:

    It is very difficult to use these functions correctly, and it is
    preferable to read entire lines with fgets(3) or getline(3) and
    parse them later with sscanf(3) or more specialized functions such
    as strtol(3).