- underlying <STRONG>scanf</STRONG> can return the number of items scanned,
- and the SVr4 code was documented to use this feature, this
- is probably an editing error which was introduced in XSI,
- rather than being done intentionally. Portable applica-
- tions should only test if the return value is ERR, since
- the OK value (zero) is likely to be misleading. One pos-
- sible way to get useful results would be to use a "%n"
- conversion at the end of the format string to ensure that
- something was processed.
-
-
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
+ underlying <STRONG>scanf(3)</STRONG> can return the number of items
+ scanned, and the SVr4 code was documented to use this fea-
+ ture, this is probably an editing error which was intro-
+ duced in XSI, rather than being done intentionally. Por-
+ table applications should only test if the return value is
+ ERR, since the OK value (zero) is likely to be misleading.
+ One possible way to get useful results would be to use a
+ "%n" conversion at the end of the format string to ensure
+ that something was processed.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>