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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/scanf.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/scanf.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..79345095 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/scanf.3 @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 2022 Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH scanf 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +scanf, fscanf, vscanf, vfscanf \- input FILE format conversion +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <stdio.h> +.PP +.BI "int scanf(const char *restrict " format ", ...);" +.BI "int fscanf(FILE *restrict " stream , +.BI " const char *restrict " format ", ...);" +.PP +.B #include <stdarg.h> +.PP +.BI "int vscanf(const char *restrict " format ", va_list " ap ); +.BI "int vfscanf(FILE *restrict " stream , +.BI " const char *restrict " format ", va_list " ap ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR vscanf (), +.BR vfscanf (): +.nf + _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR scanf () +family of functions scans input like +.BR sscanf (3), +but read from a +.IR FILE . +It is very difficult to use these functions correctly, +and it is preferable to read entire lines with +.BR fgets (3) +or +.BR getline (3) +and parse them later with +.BR sscanf (3) +or more specialized functions such as +.BR strtol (3). +.PP +The +.BR scanf () +function reads input from the standard input stream +.I stdin +and +.BR fscanf () +reads input from the stream pointer +.IR stream . +.PP +The +.BR vfscanf () +function is analogous to +.BR vfprintf (3) +and reads input from the stream pointer +.I stream +using a variable argument list of pointers (see +.BR stdarg (3). +The +.BR vscanf () +function is analogous to +.BR vprintf (3) +and reads from the standard input. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, these functions return the number of input items +successfully matched and assigned; +this can be fewer than provided for, +or even zero, in the event of an early matching failure. +.PP +The value +.B EOF +is returned if the end of input is reached before either the first +successful conversion or a matching failure occurs. +.B EOF +is also returned if a read error occurs, +in which case the error indicator for the stream (see +.BR ferror (3)) +is set, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EAGAIN +The file descriptor underlying +.I stream +is marked nonblocking, and the read operation would block. +.TP +.B EBADF +The file descriptor underlying +.I stream +is invalid, or not open for reading. +.TP +.B EILSEQ +Input byte sequence does not form a valid character. +.TP +.B EINTR +The read operation was interrupted by a signal; see +.BR signal (7). +.TP +.B EINVAL +Not enough arguments; or +.I format +is NULL. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Out of memory. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR scanf (), +.BR fscanf (), +.BR vscanf (), +.BR vfscanf () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +C99, POSIX.1-2001. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR fgets (3), +.BR getline (3), +.BR sscanf (3) |