RE: %scan and the new line character

From: Kurt Anderson

To read the IFS file I'm using C's read API. Well I think it's from C.
// Read an IFS File
D read PR 10i 0 ExtProc( 'read' )
D filehandle 10i 0 Value
D datareceived * Value
D nbytes 10u 0 Value

To which we have a service program procedure that wraps around it. I
think we're requesting 1024 bytes. The data is much smaller. I'm
getting all of the data in the IFS file returned to me. When in debug,
I can display the returned data and see everything that is in the IFS
file. So I don't believe the read is an issue. In fact only one read
is occuring, and if I %scan starting after the new line character,
everything works as I'd like. So it really can't be a read issue.

Kurt, I don't have the time to write the test program this second, but I am
99.99% certain that %scan is completely context-insensitive. By that, I
mean that it reads characters regardless of what they contain, and so what
you're seeing doesn't make sense.

When I get a chance, I'll write a ten line test program, but until then,
here's a question. Are you scanning a varying length field? If so, did you
check the length?

In any case, I'll try to do some more specific testing later today.

Joe