X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcurs_scanw.3x.html;h=7d81e69e931cf3102bcb18a15b0376efe4df5bdc;hp=c89b274e2c6e117fcdbc6aa92e6d5307738a8d87;hb=a8e3f06ac309504143cd56ac9ec55889bfdf4914;hpb=6208c89f98f1cf9fe0980bd8e791846ce007a13d diff --git a/doc/html/man/curs_scanw.3x.html b/doc/html/man/curs_scanw.3x.html index c89b274e..7d81e69e 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/curs_scanw.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/curs_scanw.3x.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ ing line used as input for sscanf(3). Fields which do not map to a variable in the fmt field are lost. - The vwscanw and vw_scanw routines are analogous to vscanf. - They perform a wscanw using a variable argument list. The - third argument is a va_list, a pointer to a list of argu- - ments, as defined in <stdarg.h>. + The vwscanw and vw_scanw routines are analogous to + vscanf(3). They perform a wscanw using a variable argu- + ment list. The third argument is a va_list, a pointer to + a list of arguments, as defined in <stdarg.h>.

RETURN VALUE

@@ -100,15 +100,15 @@
 
        Both XSI and The  Single  Unix  Specification,  Version  2
        state  that  these  functions return ERR or OK.  Since the
-       underlying scanf 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.
+       underlying  scanf(3)  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.

SEE ALSO