Subj : sscanf and bool
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : MarvinAvery
Date : Mon Aug 23 2004 05:18 pm

Hi.

I am using BC5.02 under Win2K.

I have a character string that contains some boolean values: eg. "0010"
I want to read these values via the sscanf() function: eg.
    bool  b1, b2, b3, b4;
    sscanf (line, "%1d%1d%1d%1d", &b1, &b2, &b3, &b4);

Problem is "%1d" stores the value as int -- that is as 16 bits whereas the
storage location is only 8 bits. So I am getting a buffer overflow.

Is there any conversion format that will read and store an 8-bit integer?
Any other suggestions?

TIA

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Marvin Avery
marvin.avery@sdc-dsc.gc.ca

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