SCANF(3P)

💖 SCANF(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the POSIX Programmer's Manual page for scanf, bestie. yes THE scanf. the one that reads your keyboard input and judges it. let's go 🫶

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay so real talk first, no cap: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. that means the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux and something's giving different energy, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior. OR, plot twist, the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 💀 so like. check first. i'm just the messenger.

✨ NAME ✨

scanf — convert formatted input

like. it takes your formatted input and converts it. that's the whole vibe. that's her. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdio.h>

int scanf(const char *restrict format, ...);

yes the ... is real, she takes variadic args, she's flexible like that 💅 and format is restrict so don't you dare alias it, the compiler is watching.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the thing: refer to fscanf().

that's it. that's the description. this page is a vibe-forward redirect and honestly? iconic. the whole lore lives over in fscanf(), so go read that one, bestie, i promise it's worth it. 🧚

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay legal girlies, gather round, this part is important and we're keeping every single word of it:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

so basically: if this page and the actual Standard ever beef, the Standard wins. periodt. no arguing. 🫡

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

so if you spot a typo, it's probably a glow-up gone wrong during the man page conversion, not the actual Standard. report it at that link bestie, they'll fix it 🩹

and that's the page!! 💜 this one came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, under the manual page name SCANF(3P) — mwah, slay, go read fscanf(), ily, bye!! 🌈✨🎀