Formatted read consumes input

[Tove]

On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 11:18:55 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> C's scanf is a poor argument as it uses pointers instead of ref 
> (and it can't do ref as there is no ref in C :) ). Yet it 
> doesn't allow to read things in a couple of calls AFAIK. In C 
> scanf returns number of arguments successfully read not bytes 
> so there is no way to continue from where it stopped.
>
> BTW it's not documented what formattedRead returns ... just 
> ouch.

Actually... look up "%n" in sscanf it's wonderful, I use it all 
the time.