On 1/22/21 12:29 AM, William Park wrote:
But, if data are buried in a mess, then it's very labour-intensive to
dig them out. It might be useful to have scanf()-like feature, where
stdin or string are read and parsed according to the usual format
string. I guess, it would actually be sscanf(), since 'read' builtin
reads a line first. Since you're dealing with strings, only %s, %c, and
%[] are sufficient.
Sounds like a good candidate for a loadable builtin. Anyone want to take
a shot at it?
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