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I have been using the scan functions for reading in  some fairly primitive 
options data from text files and i have run into the following bug:

when reading unsigned integers separated by typical charactes (such as "/" 
or "-") for dates, for some reason scan chokes on reading "09" into a the 
integer number 9. Here's a simple example that will illustrate:

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#include <oxstd.h>

main(){
	decl test,n1,n2,n3;

	test="01/02/03";
	sscan(test,"%2u",&n1,"/%2u",&n2,"/%2u",&n3);
	print(n1~n2~n3);

	test="01/09/03";
	sscan(test,"%2u",&n1,"/%2u",&n2,"/%2u",&n3);
	print(n1~n2~n3);
}
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The first test works fine but the second fails to read the number 9 in the 
middle. I have done some fairly extensive tensing and this error happens 
only with numbers that start with "09" and the separator makes no 
difference. The error happens when using "/", "-", " " (space) and several 
others.

I hope there is an easy workaround for this... I have to read in literally 
hundreds of thousands of little files that contain dates in this format...

thanks,

daniel
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Daniel Morillo
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