Comment by unwind

6 hours ago

No actual C programmer who has been around the block more than halfway should do that. The mantra is: "read into a character buffer, then parse that".

It's more code, sure, but it buys you a lot of good things. I/O is hard.

No C++ programmer who has been around the block more than halfway should do

    cin >> a;

and assume that it works.

But also ...

    sscanf (the_buffer, "%d", &a);

doesn't help the problem in any substantive way.