Re: Typo in scanf

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Alain [off-list ref] wrote:

There is a typo in the example given under "Note" section.

Sorry I saw just now that there is a very easy way to report that by mail...
I already files the report (and details such as version used = Ubuntu
10.04.3) here :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/891854

Typo is:

fprintf(stderr, "No matching characters\n"):

Should be instead

fprintf(stderr, "No matching characters\n");


( ';' semicolon terminates an C instruction, and not ':' colon )

I also made a suggestion (see bug report), to change the example using the
'm' modifier as 'a' seems rather dangerous and obsolete.
This second part is just a suggestion (subject to discussion) whereas the
typo is really there and makes compiling without errors impossible.

Best regards.
Alain BENEDETTI

Thanks Alain. Fixed!

Cheers,

Michael


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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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