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Subject: Re: "fscanf" functionality ...
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:47:40 +0100
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> Currently I'm converting some program into OCaml in which I've got to
> read fixed length fields. In C I can use [f]scanf and I'm looking for
> some nice equivalent - it doesn't need to be exactly the same

That's far from being the first time I can read/hear of somebody asking for
a scanf equivalent. Wouldn't it be a great improvment to the Printf library
?