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<h4 class="subsection" id="String-Input-Conversions-1"><span>14.2.15 String Input Conversions<a class="copiable-link" href="#String-Input-Conversions-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
<p>This section describes the <code class="code">scanf</code> input conversions for reading
string and character values: ‘<samp class="samp">%s</samp>’ and ‘<samp class="samp">%c</samp>’.
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<p>The ‘<samp class="samp">%c</samp>’ conversion is the simplest: it matches a fixed number of
characters, always. The maximum field with says how many characters to
read; if you don’t specify the maximum, the default is 1. This
conversion does not skip over initial whitespace characters. It reads
precisely the next <var class="var">n</var> characters, and fails if it cannot get that
many.
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<p>The ‘<samp class="samp">%s</samp>’ conversion matches a string of non-whitespace characters.
It skips and discards initial whitespace, but stops when it encounters
more whitespace after having read something.
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<p>For example, reading the input:
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<pre class="example-preformatted"> hello, world
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<p>with the conversion ‘<samp class="samp">%10c</samp>’ produces <code class="code">" hello, wo"</code>, but
reading the same input with the conversion ‘<samp class="samp">%10s</samp>’ produces
<code class="code">"hello,"</code>.
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