WSCANF(3P)

💖 WSCANF(3P) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this one lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual (that's the manual name, bestie, and it's giving ✨ standards energy ✨). It's a short one but it's still iconic, so let's go.

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Real talk first: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so 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. 💀 iykyk.

🎀 NAME 🎀

wscanf — convert formatted wide-character input

like. it reads formatted wide-character input. that's the whole job. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>

int wscanf(const wchar_t *restrict format, ...);

look at that ... bestie, she's variadic and she's thriving 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so for this one you gotta refer to fwscanf(). that's it. that's the description. no cap, it literally just says go read fwscanf(). 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

legal era, bestie, don't skip 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 .

🚨 also: 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 . (not me being the messenger 💀)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! short, sweet, standards-compliant. 🌈

This one came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017 — so credit where credit's due, periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶