[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35852] fscanf does not read full file

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #35852 (project octave):

OK, it turns out that the bug reported to the mailing list (bug.m and bug.dat)
is not really a bug in Octave.  The script uses "%i:%i:%i" to parse times of
the form "06:08:30" and that fails because %i interprets hex, octal, and
decimal integers depending on the contents of the file that is being read. 
Hex numbers begin with 0x or 0X and octal numbers begin with 0.  So 08 is not
parsed as "8" but instead as 0 because it initially looks like an octal number
but 8 is not an octal digit.  This is not a bug.  If you want to always parse
decimal numbers, use '%d' instead of '%i'.

On a related note, while investigating this problem report, I did find a bug
with not properly ignoring leading whitespace when handling '%i' formats. 
That problem is fixed in the following changeset:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/757f729fd41d

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