From 741522f9ce9d1af372ab13cc3ae561853693eba7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Fischer <mfischer@php.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:50:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Document whitespace behaviour of the scanf functions,
 closes #12337.

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@85202 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml | 9 ++++++++-
 reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml    | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml b/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml
index 6af7f36e9d..b0a42ac742 100644
--- a/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml
+++ b/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/filesystem.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.fscanf">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
      Otherwise, if optional parameters are passed, the function will
      return the number of assigned values. The optional parameters
      must be passed by reference.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input
+     stream. This means that even a tab <literal>\n</literal> in the format
+     string can match a single space character in the input stream.
+    </para>
+    <para>
      <example>
       <title><function>fscanf</function> Example</title>
       <programlisting role="php">
diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml b/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
index f91dad8865..1fbeeaa4b0 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.33 -->
   <refentry id="function.sscanf">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@
      according to the specified <parameter>format</parameter>. If only
      two parameters were passed to this function, the values parsed
      will be returned as an array.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input
+     string. This means that even a tab \n in the format string can match a
+     single space character in the input string.
+    </para>
+    <para>
      <example>
       <title><function>sscanf</function> Example</title>
       <programlisting role="php">