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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- $Revision: 290998 $ -->

<refentry xml:id="splfileobject.fscanf" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>SplFileObject::fscanf</refname>
  <refpurpose>Parses input from file according to a format</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>

 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <modifier>public</modifier> <type>mixed</type><methodname>SplFileObject::fscanf</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>format</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>mixed</type><parameter role="reference">...</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Reads a line from the file and interprets it according to the specified <parameter>format</parameter>, which is
   described in the documentation for <function>sprintf</function>.
  </para>
  <para>
   Any whitespace in the <parameter>format</parameter> string matches any whitespace in the line from the file.
   This means that even a tab <literal>\t</literal> in the format string can match a single space character in the input stream.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>format</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The specified format as described in the <function>sprintf</function> documentation.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>...</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The optional assigned values.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   If only two parameters were passed to this method, the values parsed will be
   returned as an array. Otherwise, if optional parameters are passed, the
   function will return the number of assigned values. The optional
   parameters must be passed by reference.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title><methodname>SplFileObject::fscanf</methodname> example</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$file = new SplFileObject("misc.txt");
while ($userinfo = $file->fscanf("%s %s %s")) {
    list ($name, $profession, $countrycode) = $userinfo;
    // Do something with $name $professi
}
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para>Contents of users.txt</para>
    <programlisting role="txt">
<![CDATA[
javier   argonaut    pe
hiroshi  sculptor    jp
robert   slacker     us
luigi    florist     it
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>fscanf</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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