2 strscanf - formatted scan of a string
5 strscanf(str, fmt, x_1, x_2, ...)
12 return null, nonnegative integer, or error value
15 If the str is "", the null value is returned.
17 Otherwise, until the terminating null character of either fmt or str
18 is reached, characters other than '%' and whitespace are read from
19 fmt and compared with the corresponding characters read from str.
20 If the characters match, reading continues. If they do not match
21 an integer value is returned. If whitespace is encountered in fmt,
22 starting at the current positions in fmt and str, any whitespace
23 characters are skipped and reading and comparison begins as before
24 if neither fmt nor str has reached its end.
26 When a '%' is encountered in fmt, if this is immediately followed by
27 another '%', the pair formed is considered as if one '%' were read and
28 reading from fmt and fs continues if and only if fs has a matching
29 '%'. A single '%' read from fmt is taken to indicate the beginning of
30 a conversion specification field consisting in succession of:
33 optional decimal digits,
34 one of 'c', 's', 'n', 'f', 'e', 'i' or a scanset specifier.
36 A scanset specifier starts with '[' and an optional '^', then an optional
37 ']', then optional other characters, and ends with ']'. If any
38 other sequence of characters follows the '%', characters before the
39 first exceptional character (which could be the terminating null
40 character of the fmt string) are ignored, e.g. the sequence " %*3d " does
41 the same as " d ". If there is no '*' at the beginning of the specifier,
42 and the list x_1, x_2, ... has not been exhausted,
43 a value will be assigned to the next lvalue in the list; if no lvalue
44 remains, the reading of fs stops and the function returns the number
45 of assignments that have been made.
47 Occurrence of '*' indicates that characters as specified are to be read
48 but no assignment will be made.
50 The digits, if any, read in the specifier are taken to be decimal digits
51 of an integer which becomes the maximum "width" (number of characters
52 to be read from str for string-type assignments); absence of digits or
53 all zero digits in the 'c' case are taken to mean width = 1. Zero width
54 for the other cases are treated as if infinite. Fewer characters than
55 the specifier width may be read if end-of-file is reached or in the case
56 of scanset specification, an exceptional character is encountered.
58 If the ending character is 'c', characters are read from fs to
59 form a string, which will be ignored or in the non-'*' case, assigned
62 In the 's' case, reading to form the string starts at the first non-white
63 character (if any) and ceases when end-of-file or further white space
64 is encountered or the specified width has been attained.
66 The cases 'f', 'e', 'r', 'i' may be considered to indicate expectation of
67 floating-point, exponential, ratio, or integer representation of the
68 number to be read. For example, 'i'
69 might be taken to suggest a number like +2345; 'r' might suggest
70 a representation like -27/49; 'e' might suggest a representation like
71 1.24e-7; 'f' might suggest a representation like 27.145. However, there
72 is no test that the the result conforms to the specifier. Whatever
73 the specifier in these cases, the result depends on the characters read
74 until a space or other exceptional character is read. The
75 characters read may include one or more occurrences of +, -, * as
76 well as /, interpreted in the usual way, with left-to-right associativity
77 for + and -, and for * and /. Also acceptable is a trailing i to
78 indicate an imaginary number. For example the expression
82 would be interpreted as for an ordinary evaluation. A decimal fraction
83 may have more than one dot: dots after the first, which is taken to be
84 the decimal point, are ignored. Thus "12.3..45e6.7" is interpreted
85 as if it were "12.345e67".
87 For the number specifiers 'f', 'e', 'r', 'i', any specified width is
90 For the specifier 'n', the index of the next character to b e read
91 is assigned to the corresponding lvalue. (Any width or skip specification
97 > A = "abc xyz 234.6 alpha"
98 > strscanf(A, "%s%*[^0123456789]%f%n", a, b, c)
103 > strscanf(A, "%*13c%s", d);
109 none - XXX - is this correct?
112 none - XXX - is this correct?
115 fscanf, scanf, fscan, strscan, scan, print, printf