[DGD] xscanf

[Felix A. Croes]

Blain <blain20 at gmail.com> wrote:

> mixed *xscanf(string str, string format)
> {
>   array ret;
>
>   ret = allocate(50);
>   sscanf(str, format, ret...);
>   return ret[.. member(ret, null) - 1];
> }
>
> Does this seem to be the best way to handle this?  I feel dirty arbitrarily
> limiting it to 50.

There is a hard limit of 128 arguments to any function, so you can use
that as your constant and be sure that you are not imposing any additional
limits.

Regards,
Felix Croes