[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] Watchtower v3

[Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:36:10PM -0400, Justin Moore wrote:
> 
> > > Content-Description: PERL-like split
> > > > Index: stdinhand.c
> > >
> > > I like it, but isn't scanf() even better?  It's standard, after all.
> >
> > bufsplit()?
> 
>    From what I saw, scanf() can either split on a range of characters or
> on whitespace, but not both simultaneously (please correct me if I'm wrong
> here).  And I can't seem to find bufsplit on any linux boxen because it
> appears to be in libgen, which is not installed on RedHat or Debian by
> default (but is on Solaris :)).

Well that explains why you didn't use it.  I wasn't sure about portability.
Sorry for the red herring.

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Paul Zastoupil