Curious Behaviour of "sscanf"

[Joe Keane]

In article <236 at c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM> anderson at c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Anderson) writes:
>Sscanf matches the number of arguments but does not continue parsing
>the control string (i.e. true even though the closing paren is missing)?
>
>Perhaps this is correct - is it?

`man sscanf' (RTFM) say:

|BUGS
|     The success of literal matches and suppressed assignments is
|     not directly determinable.

So it's certainly documented.  You could argue that this isn't
`correct', but i'm not sure.  What would you have it return?

>Joel.
--Joe