Re: RFC - add snscanf(3) to stdio

[itohy%netbsd.org@localhost (ITOH Yasufumi)]

In article <48B90796.3050503%netbsd.org@localhost>
darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost writes:

> Thus I'd like to introduce the following:
> int snscanf(const char *str, const size_t buflen, const char *format, ...);
> int vsnscanf(const char *str, const size_t buflen, const char *format, 
> va_list ap);
> 
> The result would be the above code changed to look like this:
> 
> line = fgetln(fp, &lsize)
> if (line != NULL && lsize > 0)
>     snscanf(line, lsize, "%d", &integer);
> 
> and there would be no need for a gratutious \0 to be added.

What does the first 's' stand for?
A string in C is defined as a nul-terminated array of char,
and an array of char without nul-termination is not a string.

What about "memscanf", "bscanf" (a la "memcpy"/"bcopy") or something?
-- 
ITOH Yasufumi