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#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
* | Suppresses assignment. The conversion that follows occurs as usual, but no pointer is used; the result of the conversion is simply discarded. |
hh | Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a char (rather than int). |
h | Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a short int (rather than int). |
l (ell) | Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a long int (rather than int), that the conversion will be one of a, e, f, or g and the next pointer is a pointer to double (rather than float), or that the conversion will be one of c or s and the next pointer is a pointer to an array of wchar_t (rather than char). |
ll (ell ell) | |
Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a long long int (rather than int). | |
L | Indicates that the conversion will be one of a, e, f, or g and the next pointer is a pointer to long double. |
j | Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a intmax_t (rather than int). |
t | Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a ptrdiff_t (rather than int). |
z | Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a size_t (rather than int). |
q | (deprecated.) Indicates that the conversion will be one of dioux or n and the next pointer is a pointer to a long long int (rather than int). |
In addition to these flags, there may be an optional maximum field width, expressed as a decimal integer, between the % and the conversion. If no width is given, a default of "infinity" is used (with one exception, below); otherwise at most this many characters are scanned in processing the conversion. Before conversion begins, most conversions skip white space; this white space is not counted against the field width.
The following conversions are available:
% | Matches a literal ‘%’. That is, "%%" in the format string matches a single input ‘%’ character. No conversion is done, and assignment does not occur. |
d | Matches an optionally signed decimal integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to int. |
i | Matches an optionally signed integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to int. The integer is read in base 16 if it begins with ‘0x’ or ‘0X’, in base 8 if it begins with ‘0’, and in base 10 otherwise. Only characters that correspond to the base are used. |
o | Matches an octal integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to unsigned int. |
u | Matches an optionally signed decimal integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to unsigned int. |
x, X | Matches an optionally signed hexadecimal integer; the next pointer must be a pointer to unsigned int. |
a, A, e, E, f, F, g, G | |
Matches a floating-point number in the style of wcstod(3). The next pointer must be a pointer to float (unless l or L is specified.) | |
s |
Matches a sequence of non-white-space wide characters;
the next pointer must be a pointer to
char,
and the array must be large enough to accept the multibyte representation
of all the sequence and the
terminating
NUL
character.
The input string stops at white space
or at the maximum field width, whichever occurs first.
If an l qualifier is present, the next pointer must be a pointer to wchar_t, into which the input will be placed. |
S | The same as ls. |
c |
Matches a sequence of
width
count
wide characters (default 1);
the next pointer must be a pointer to
char,
and there must be enough room for the multibyte representation
of all the characters
(no terminating
NUL
is added).
The usual skip of leading white space is suppressed.
To skip white space first, use an explicit space in the format.
If an l qualifier is present, the next pointer must be a pointer to wchar_t, into which the input will be placed. |
C | The same as lc. |
amp;[ |
Matches a nonempty sequence of characters from the specified set
of accepted characters;
the next pointer must be a pointer to
char,
and there must be enough room for the multibyte representation of
all the characters in the string,
plus a terminating
NUL
character.
The usual skip of leading white space is suppressed.
The string is to be made up of characters in
(or not in)
a particular set;
the set is defined by the characters between the open bracket
amp;[
character
and a close bracket
amp;]
character.
The set
excludes
those characters
if the first character after the open bracket is a circumflex
^.
To include a close bracket in the set,
make it the first character after the open bracket
or the circumflex;
any other position will end the set.
To include a hyphen in the set,
make it the last character before the final close bracket;
some implementations of
wscanf()
use
"A-Z"
to represent the range of characters between
‘A’
and
‘Z’.
The string ends with the appearance of a character not in the
(or, with a circumflex, in) set
or when the field width runs out.
If an l qualifier is present, the next pointer must be a pointer to wchar_t, into which the input will be placed. |
p | Matches a pointer value (as printed by ‘%p’ in wprintf(3)); the next pointer must be a pointer to void. |
n | Nothing is expected; instead, the number of characters consumed thus far from the input is stored through the next pointer, which must be a pointer to int. This is not a conversion, although it can be suppressed with the * flag. |
The decimal point character is defined in the program's locale (category LC_NUMERIC).
For backwards compatibility, a "conversion" of ‘%\0’ causes an immediate return of EOF.
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