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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-12-09 11:35:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-12-09 11:55:22 +0100 |
| commit | 4ea602c6ab2716c00d189d28199a9236180d2145 (patch) | |
| tree | 4012a86a81ef5e376dfcca8aa03f11e9b857ce8b | |
| parent | 628d27c3c1d8362a7e73198460b8c6a739be4973 (diff) | |
scanf.3: CAVEATS: These functions don't distinguish newlines easily
One could use "%*1[\n]" for specifying a newline, and "%*[ \t] for other
white space.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/scanf.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3 index 01d18bac3..de2702b35 100644 --- a/man3/scanf.3 +++ b/man3/scanf.3 @@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale C11, POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY C99, POSIX.1-2001. +.SH CAVEATS +These functions make it difficult to +distinguish newlines from other white space, +This is especially problematic with line-buffered input, +like the standard input stream. .SH SEE ALSO .BR fgets (3), .BR getline (3), |