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| int fscanf( FILE *stream, const char *format, ... );
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| int sscanf( const char *buffer, const char *format, ... );
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Reads data from the a variety of sources, interprets it according to format and stores the results into given locations.
1) reads the data from stdin
2) reads the data from file stream stream
3) reads the data from null-terminated character string buffer
[edit] Parameters
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input file stream to read from
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| buffer
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pointer to a null-terminated character string to read from
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| format
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pointer to a null-terminated character string specifying how to read the input.
The format string consists of whitespace characters (any single whitespace character in the format string consumes all available consecutive whitespace characters from the input), non-whitespace characters except % (each such character in the format strings consumes exactly one identical character from the input) and conversion specifications. Each conversion specification has the following format:
- (optional) assignment-suppressing character *. If this option is present, the function does not assign the result of the conversion to any receiving argument.
- (optional) integer number (greater than zero) that specifies maximum field width, that is, the maximum number of characters that the function is allowed to consume when doing the conversion specified by the current conversion specification
- (optional) length modifier that specifies the size of the receiving argument, that is, the actual destination type. This affects the conversion accuracy and overflow rules. The default destination type is different for each conversion type (see table below).
- conversion format specifier
The following format specifiers are available:
Conversion
specifier
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Explanation
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Argument type
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| length modifier
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hh
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h
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(none)
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l
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ll
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j
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z
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t
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L
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| %
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matches literal %
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| c
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matches a single character
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N/A
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N/A
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char*
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wchar_t*
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| s
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matches a character string
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| [set]
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- matches a non-empty sequence of character from set of characters.
If the first character of the set is ^, then all characters not in the set are matched. If the set begins with ] or ^] then the ] character is also included into the set.
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| d
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- matches a decimal integer.
The format of the number is the same as expected by strtol() with the value 10 for the base argument
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signed
char*
or
unsigned
char*
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signed
short*
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unsigned
short*
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signed
int*
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unsigned
int*
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signed
long*
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unsigned
long*
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signed
long long*
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unsigned
long*
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intmax_t*
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uintmax_t*
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size_t*
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ptrdiff_t*
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N/A
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| i
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- matches a decimal integer.
The format of the number is the same as expected by strtol() with the value 0 for the base argument
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| u
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- matches a unsigned decimal integer.
The format of the number is the same as expected by strtoul() with the value 0 for the base argument
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| o
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- matches an octal integer.
The format of the number is the same as expected by strtol() with the value 8 for the base argument
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| x
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- matches an hexadecimal integer.
The format of the number is the same as expected by strtol() with the value 16 for the base argument
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| n
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- returns the number of characters read so far.
No input is consumed. Does not increment the assignment count. If the specifier has assignment-suppressing operator defined, the behavior is undefined
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a, A
e, E
f, F
g, G
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- matches a floating-point number.
The format of the number is the same as expected by strtof()
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N/A
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N/A
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float*
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double*
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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long
double*
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| p
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- matches implementation defined character sequence defining a pointer.
printf family of functions should produce the same sequence using %p format specifier
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N/A
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N/A
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void**
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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receiving arguments
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[edit] Return value
Number of receiving arguments successfully assigned, or EOF if read failure occurs before the first receiving argument was assigned.
[edit] Example
[edit] See also
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reads formatted input from stdin, a file stream or a buffer
using variable argument list
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gets a character string from a file stream
(function)
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prints formatted output to stdout, a file stream or a buffer
(function)
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