Max string length using scanf -> ANSI C

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I wasn’t happy with any of these solutions, so I researched further, and discovered GNU GCC macro stringification

which can be used as:

#define XSTR(A) STR(A)
#define STR(A) #A
#define MAX_STR_LEN 100
scanf("%"XSTR(MAX_STR_LEN)"[^\n]s", sometext)

Maybe VS2010 offers something similar?

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