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

Am 19.09.2025 um 17:52 schrieb Cottrell, Allin: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM Sven Schreiber > <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: >> About the whitespace: OK, good to know where it comes from, but the question is whether we want to have this behavior at the hansl level. AFAIK, in hansl the format code %s stands for an arbitrary string, including whitespace. At least it doesn't seem to be documented. > IMO it's best to stick with the C behavior for sscanf. Apart from > anything else, changing it would be backward-incompatible. OK, no problem. I guess we agree it should be mentioned in the help, though.

> Below, a few ways of getting what you originally wanted: > > <hansl> > string hey = "aha oho, uhu" > string s1 > sscanf(hey, "aha %31[^\n]", s1) # scan up to newline, if present In principle I like this one especially, but the incoming string in my case came from getinfo(<someseries>).description, and so I guess there really wasn't any newline in there.