Re: Feature Request: scanf-like parsing

[Saint Michael]

I vote for this new feature.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 9:16 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 1/22/21 12:29 AM, William Park wrote:
>
> > But, if data are buried in a mess, then it's very labour-intensive to
> > dig them out.  It might be useful to have scanf()-like feature, where
> > stdin or string are read and parsed according to the usual format
> > string.  I guess, it would actually be sscanf(), since 'read' builtin
> > reads a line first.  Since you're dealing with strings, only %s, %c, and
> > %[] are sufficient.
>
> Sounds like a good candidate for a loadable builtin. Anyone want to take
> a shot at it?
>
>
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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