scanf and printf have complementary format specifiers, which can make maintaining serialization and parsing of regular data a breeze...
the proper remedy is to simply wrap the string to parse with fmemopen(3), which makes the temporary FILE object explicit and persistent for the whole parse, and needs just one strlen call.
the proper remedy is to simply wrap the string to parse with fmemopen(3), which makes the temporary FILE object explicit and persistent for the whole parse, and needs just one strlen call.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343149