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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com>
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- Subject: Re: What are the best C programming language books for beginner?
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:27:23 -0600
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- Lawrence Kirby wrote:
- >
- > I have the draft-ANSI version of K&R2. The biggest error in it w.r.t. the
- > final standard is the description of scanf in both the tutorial and reference
- > sections, particularly with regards white-space handling. I understood that
- > the revised ANSI edition didn't correct this. Am I right?
- >
- > For example in the reference section B1.3 by copy says:
- >
- > "... The format string may contain:
- >
- > . Blanks or tabs, which are ignored"
- >
- > which is false.
- >
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- Yes, my second edition (B 1.3 is on page 245) has that wording.
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