scan_ushort(3)

💖 scan_ushort — bestie's guide to snatching an unsigned short out of text 💖

okay so first things first, the manual name is scan_ushort (it lives in section 3, the library-functions girlies 🫶). that's the whole vibe of this page and we're gonna get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

scan_ushort — she parses an unsigned short integer that's hanging out in decimal ASCII representation 💅

🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

the way you summon her:

#include <libowfat/scan.h>

size_t scan_ushort(const char *src,unsigned short *dest);

yep that's it, that's the whole incantation ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea, and honestly it's not even complicated, she's just that girl:

scan_ushort parses an unsigned short integer in decimal ASCII representation — it reads it straight out of src 🌈

then she drops the result into dest like it's a lil gift 🎀

and she returns the number of bytes read from src so you know exactly how much she ate. periodt. 💅

lowkey no cap, that return value is the main character here — it's literally the only way you find out how far she got. don't sleep on it bestie 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

her girlies, her squad, the ones you should also be checking out:

• scan_xshort(3)
• scan_8short(3)
• fmt_ulong(3)

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💖✨🦋🌸🎀💅 this iconic lil writeup is filed under scan_ushort(3), so if you ever need her again you know exactly where to look 🫶 mwah, go parse something cute 💜