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-rw-r--r--man3/scanf.35
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3
index e477298ad0..8e9106c590 100644
--- a/man3/scanf.3
+++ b/man3/scanf.3
@@ -462,9 +462,8 @@ Matches a sequence of characters whose length is specified by the
.I maximum field width
(default 1); the next pointer must be a pointer to
.IR char ,
-and there must be enough room for all the characters (no terminating
-null byte
-is added).
+and there must be enough room for all the characters
+(no terminating null byte is added).
The usual skip of leading white space is suppressed.
To skip white space first, use an explicit space in the format.
.TP