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Non-decimal conversion in scanf #3459

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vicuna opened this issue Jul 25, 2002 · 2 comments
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Non-decimal conversion in scanf #3459

vicuna opened this issue Jul 25, 2002 · 2 comments
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vicuna commented Jul 25, 2002

Original bug ID: 1260
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: Berke Durak
Version: 3.04+15
OS: OpenBSD 2.9
Submission from: mix-montsouris-110-3-84.abo.wanadoo.fr (193.248.190.84)

As far as I understand, ``sscanf "%x"'' is supposed to convert
strings of the form [0-9a-f]+ to decimal, not strings of the form
0x[0-9a-f]+. However :

Scanf.sscanf "a" "%x" (fun x -> x);;

Exception:
Scanf.Scan_failure "scanf: bad input at char number 1: int_of_string".

Same bug applies for %lx, and possibly for %lo...
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vicuna commented Jul 25, 2002

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As far as I understand, ``sscanf "%x"'' is supposed to convert
strings of the form [0-9a-f]+ to decimal, not strings of the form
0x[0-9a-f]+. However :

Scanf.sscanf "a" "%x" (fun x -> x);;

Exception:
Scanf.Scan_failure "scanf: bad input at char number 1: int_of_string".

Same bug applies for %lx, and possibly for %lo...

Thanks for reporting this bug. It is now fixed in the working
sources.

  • Xavier Leroy

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vicuna commented Jul 25, 2002

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Fxied 2002-07-25 by DD & XL

@vicuna vicuna closed this as completed Jul 25, 2002
@vicuna vicuna added the bug label Mar 19, 2019
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