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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdio')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 index e316a158c1a..e4603b2e4cf 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.4 1999/07/02 20:58:00 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.5 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ string may also contain other characters. White space (such as blanks, tabs, or newlines) in the .Fa format -string match any amount of white space, including none, in the input. +string match any amount of whitespace, including none, in the input. Everything else matches only itself. Scanning stops @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ a default of `infinity' is used (with one exception, below); otherwise at most this many characters are scanned in processing the conversion. Before conversion begins, -most conversions skip white space; -this white space is not counted against the field width. +most conversions skip whitespace; +this whitespace is not counted against the field width. .Pp The following conversions are available: .Bl -tag -width XXXX @@ -257,14 +257,14 @@ Equivalent to Equivalent to .Cm f . .It Cm s -Matches a sequence of non-white-space characters; +Matches a sequence of non-whitespace characters; the next pointer must be a pointer to .Em char , and the array must be large enough to accept all the sequence and the terminating .Dv NUL character. -The input string stops at white space +The input string stops at whitespace or at the maximum field width, whichever occurs first. .It Cm c Matches a sequence of @@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ and there must be enough room for all the characters (no terminating .Dv NUL is added). -The usual skip of leading white space is suppressed. -To skip white space first, use an explicit space in the format. +The usual skip of leading whitespace is suppressed. +To skip whitespace first, use an explicit space in the format. .It Cm \&[ Matches a nonempty sequence of characters from the specified set of accepted characters; @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ and there must be enough room for all the characters in the string, plus a terminating .Dv NUL character. -The usual skip of leading white space is suppressed. +The usual skip of leading whitespace is suppressed. The string is to be made up of characters in (or not in) a particular set; |