The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6
IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition
Copyright © 2001-2004 The IEEE and The Open Group, All Rights reserved.
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NAME

vfscanf, vscanf, vsscanf - format input of a stdarg argument list

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int vfscanf(FILE *restrict
stream, const char *restrict format,
       va_list
arg);
int vscanf(const char *restrict
format, va_list arg);
int vsscanf(const char *restrict
s, const char *restrict format,
       va_list
arg);

DESCRIPTION

[CX] [Option Start] The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 defers to the ISO C standard. [Option End]

The vscanf(), vfscanf(), and vsscanf() functions shall be equivalent to the scanf(), fscanf(), and sscanf() functions, respectively, except that instead of being called with a variable number of arguments, they are called with an argument list as defined in the <stdarg.h> header. These functions shall not invoke the va_end macro. As these functions invoke the va_arg macro, the value of ap after the return is unspecified.

RETURN VALUE

Refer to fscanf().

ERRORS

Refer to fscanf().


The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

Applications using these functions should call va_end( ap) afterwards to clean up.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

fscanf(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <stdarg.h>, <stdio.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 6. Derived from the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard.

End of informative text.

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