mfischer Sun Jun 9 17:50:25 2002 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions sscanf.xml
/phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions fscanf.xml
Log:
- Document whitespace behaviour of the scanf functions, closes #12337.
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml:1.2
phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml:1.3
--- phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml:1.2 Wed Apr 17 02:44:22
2002
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/strings/functions/sscanf.xml Sun Jun 9 17:50:17 2002
@@ -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">
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml:1.2
phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml:1.3
--- phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml:1.2 Wed Apr 17 02:38:08
2002
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fscanf.xml Sun Jun 9 17:50:25 2002
@@ -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">
