Name
scan
- scan
string format varName
... Parse fields from the string
string
according to the ANSI C scanf( ) -style formatformat
and place results in the specified variables. Return the number of conversions, or −1 if unable to match any fields. Format placeholders have the form %[*] [width]char
, where * discards the field,width
is an integer, and possible values ofchar
are as follows:d
Decimal
o
Octal
x
Hex
c
Char to int
e
Float
f
Float
g
Float
s
String (no whitespace)
[
chars
]Chars in given range
[
^chars
]Chars not in given range
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