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Re: swscanf() question

johnmatthews2000 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:26:13 GMT

... ...but the format string is incorrect as described previously, so it should be: ret = swscanf(srcStr, _T"%[^=]=%lu", destString, &destLong); (assuming the

Re: swscanf() question

Vishva — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:28:22 GMT

Well, I think Paul is right, destLong should be a pointer to a long so the swscanf code should be like.. ret = swscanf(srcStr, _T"%s=%lu", destString,

Re: swscanf() question

Paul Herring — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:41:38 GMT

... Previous comments about the string specifier aside... Plain scanf() would require a pointer to a long - is destLong a long, or a pointer to a long? If the

Re: swscanf() question

johnmatthews2000 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:09:50 GMT

... ...but you do want to store it, so it should be " %[^=]=%lu". I don't know about the _T because I'm a C programmer.

Re: swscanf() question

johnmatthews2000 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:55:49 GMT

... The %s matches a sequence of non-space characters, so it includes the '='. Try the format string: " %*[^=]=%u" The "%*[^=]" matches any characters

Re: swscanf() question

Rick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:21:26 GMT

... I don't know about the "_T" type specifier. I'd leave it off. But try using "%4s=%lu" ~Rick

Re: function call before main

Tyler Littlefield — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:56:57 GMT

I don't know about a "startup" file. You could always redefine the entry point with the linker and make that call main, but why not just call the function in

swscanf() question

Vishva — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:01:58 GMT

This might be very simple to most of you. ... TCHAR destString[10]; unsigned long destLong = 0; // srcStr contains a string like "xxxx=2000" ret =

Re: function call before main

andrew clarke — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:15:49 GMT

... Not in a standard way. Some C compilers might support something like that though. In C++ you can have a constructor call a function before main() is

function call before main

tujare_raj1 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:31:42 GMT

can we call any function before "main" function in 'C' using any compiler without editing "start-up" file

Re: Retrieving all the key values

Paul Herring — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:34:46 GMT

... That's what the user interface is for. Users should not be digging into the registry/INI files to change stuff. Firefox's about:config interface is a sorta

Re: Retrieving all the key values

John Gaughan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:43:32 GMT

... I never did like the registry. I would store data in flat files in the user's profile, in a platform-independent way. XML is good for this, although

Re: beginner to intermediate

Thomas Hruska — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:58:35 GMT

... Well, since you want to develop games, a good place to start could be enemy behaviors. Write a program to get a number of enemies optimally through a

Re: Retrieving all the key values

Samudra Vishvajith Kapuruge — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:32:58 GMT

... Wonder why it's not mentioned in MSDN.. Or didn't I see it.. But thanks again for replying.. Now my doubts are clear.. Cheers, Vishva

Re: Retrieving all the key values

Paul Herring — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:50:56 GMT

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Samudra Vishvajith Kapuruge wrote: [...] ... It means application specific data like this should be