Next: Table of Input Conversions, Previous: Formatted Input, Up: C-Style I/O Functions [Contents][Index]
A scanf
template string is a string that contains ordinary
multibyte characters interspersed with conversion specifications that
start with ‘%’.
Any whitespace character in the template causes any number of whitespace characters in the input stream to be read and discarded. The whitespace characters that are matched need not be exactly the same whitespace characters that appear in the template string. For example, write ‘ , ’ in the template to recognize a comma with optional whitespace before and after.
Other characters in the template string that are not part of conversion specifications must match characters in the input stream exactly; if this is not the case, a matching failure occurs.
The conversion specifications in a scanf
template string
have the general form:
% flags width type conversion
In more detail, an input conversion specification consists of an initial ‘%’ character followed in sequence by:
scanf
finds a conversion
specification that uses this flag, it reads input as directed by the
rest of the conversion specification, but it discards this input, does
not return any value, and does not increment the count of
successful assignments.
scanf
function, but is recognized to provide
compatibility with the C language scanf
.
The exact options that are permitted and how they are interpreted vary between the different conversion specifiers. See the descriptions of the individual conversions in Table of Input Conversions for information about the particular options that they allow.
Next: Table of Input Conversions, Previous: Formatted Input, Up: C-Style I/O Functions [Contents][Index]