On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Lucio de Re wrote:

: One could make that an implementation proviso, namely that scanning has 
: to start at $1 and will forcibly be terminated at $N where $N is the 
: largest consecutive counter.

Point of information:  the SUS98/XPG formatting extension is %N$q, not
%$Nq.  The number is *between* the % and $.

: One might also want to allow for a "skip" field along the lines of 
: scanf()'s %* to assist where arguments must legitimately be left out.  
: Sounds a bit of a botch, but it would serve some purpose.

According to the spec, you must use consecutive arguments starting at 1, as
was clarified by someone else.

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