fscanf Parses input from a file according to a format &reftitle.description; arrayintfalsenullfscanf resourcestream stringformat mixedvars The function fscanf is similar to sscanf, but it takes its input from a file associated with stream and interprets the input according to the specified format, which is described in the documentation for sprintf. Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input stream. This means that even a tab \t in the format string can match a single space character in the input stream. Each call to fscanf reads one line from the file. &reftitle.parameters; stream &fs.file.pointer; &strings.parameter.format; vars The optional assigned values. &reftitle.returnvalues; If only two parameters were passed to this function, 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. If there are more substrings expected in the format than there are available within string, &null; will be returned. On other errors, &false; will be returned. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.seealso; fread fgets fgetss sscanf printf sprintf