I find the ability to put a regular expression in the format
string of scanf/sscanf to be very  useful for example
 scanf(" \'%[^\']*s\'", QuotedString);
 Is there any plans to add this as a standard function to the C++
stream class definition?
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Bill Royds           az915@freenet.carleton.ca     C.L.B.R.R. Ag Canada
Ottawa, Ontario      ROYDSW@ncccot.agr.ca          Scientific Software Support