[Gretl-devel] Re: problem scanning a string with commas

On 19/09/2025 10:07, Sven Schreiber wrote: This function is really borrowed from the standard C library. From its man page:       s       Matches  a  sequence  of  non-white-space  characters; the  next               pointer must be a pointer to the initial element of  a character               array that is long enough to hold the input sequence and the ter‐               minating null byte ('\0'), which is added automatically.  The in‐               put  string  stops  at white space or at the maximum field width,               whichever occurs first. so the space effectively end the string that the function catches. I guess (haven't tested) that in C you could use "%[a-z, ]" do do what you want, but it appears we have a bug that prevents this from working properly in hansl. @Allin: it seems that for some reason n at line 1069 in lib/src/printscan.c is set at 0, but this is as far as I'm able to go this morning. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------