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| -rw-r--r-- | man3/scanf.3 | 8 |
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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; |