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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-07-07 14:37:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-07-07 14:37:42 +0000 |
| commit | f9d17bc4fb816ab54a63e3a72f7d8da320a6afd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 2329fe0f052c59c54c29e07c3f1ceb8999f77b4e /man3 | |
| parent | 3f89dd3d82bd8cf36e724fc4d9afe3ba25df7e60 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-f9d17bc4fb816ab54a63e3a72f7d8da320a6afd1.tar.gz | |
Clarify treatment of intial white space by %% conversion specification.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.
Diffstat (limited to 'man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/scanf.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3 index c473088d9d..1cde231358 100644 --- a/man3/scanf.3 +++ b/man3/scanf.3 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ .\" Add ERRORS section. .\" Document the 'a' and 'm' modifiers for dynamic string allocation. .\" -.TH SCANF 3 2008-06-23 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH SCANF 3 2008-07-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME scanf, fscanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf, vfscanf \- input format conversion .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ An optional decimal integer which specifies the .IR "maximum field width" . Reading of characters stops either when this maximum is reached or when a non-matching character is found, whichever happens first. -Most conversions discard initial whitespace characters (the exceptions +Most conversions discard initial white space characters (the exceptions are noted below), and these discarded characters don't count towards the maximum field width. String input conversions store a null terminator (\(aq\\0\(aq) @@ -375,8 +375,8 @@ That is, .B %\&% in the format string matches a single input \(aq%\(aq character. -No conversion is done, and assignment does not -occur. +No conversion is done (but initial white space characters are discarded), +and assignment does not occur. .TP .B d Matches an optionally signed decimal integer; |