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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-24 00:31:01 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-24 00:31:01 +0000
commitb1044a070b87b20a73f593b1087fae3a062d5920 (patch)
treedaa375c4c5a8cf9fabd0f0657b2141fbb899ef71 /lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
parent89891a551cfa28139f6165de0c822d75e1035761 (diff)
Various repairs, mostly to get rid of short lines.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdio/scanf.321
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
index 9226e6f8b0a..97c33a59fc1 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.9 2000/07/31 22:20:56 pjanzen Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.10 2000/12/24 00:30:59 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -113,8 +113,7 @@ All conversions are introduced by the
(percent sign) character.
The
.Fa format
-string
-may also contain other characters.
+string may also contain other characters.
Whitespace (such as blanks, tabs, or newlines) in the
.Fa format
string match any amount of whitespace, including none, in the input.
@@ -333,8 +332,7 @@ a conversion, although it can be suppressed with the
flag.
.El
.Pp
-For backwards compatibility,
-other conversion characters (except
+For backwards compatibility, other conversion characters (except
.Ql \e0 )
are taken as if they were
.Ql %d
@@ -345,15 +343,10 @@ and a `conversion' of
causes an immediate return of
.Dv EOF .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
-These
-functions
-return
-the number of input items assigned, which can be fewer than provided
-for, or even zero, in the event of a matching failure.
-Zero
-indicates that, while there was input available,
-no conversions were assigned;
-typically this is due to an invalid input character,
+These functions return the number of input items assigned, which can be fewer
+than provided for, or even zero, in the event of a matching failure.
+Zero indicates that, while there was input available, no conversions were
+assigned; typically this is due to an invalid input character,
such as an alphabetic character for a
.Ql %d
conversion.