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<h3 class="section">4.69 <code>vfscanf</code>, <code>vscanf</code>, <code>vsscanf</code>&mdash;format argument list</h3>
<p><a name="index-vfscanf-337"></a><a name="index-g_t_005fvfscanf_005fr-338"></a><a name="index-vscanf-339"></a><a name="index-g_t_005fvscanf_005fr-340"></a><a name="index-vsscanf-341"></a><a name="index-g_t_005fvsscanf_005fr-342"></a><strong>Synopsis</strong>
<pre class="example"> #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdarg.h&gt;
int vscanf(const char *<var>fmt</var>, va_list <var>list</var>);
int vfscanf(FILE *<var>fp</var>, const char *<var>fmt</var>, va_list <var>list</var>);
int vsscanf(const char *<var>str</var>, const char *<var>fmt</var>, va_list <var>list</var>);
int _vscanf_r(struct _reent *<var>reent</var>, const char *<var>fmt</var>,
va_list <var>list</var>);
int _vfscanf_r(struct _reent *<var>reent</var>, FILE *<var>fp</var>, const char *<var>fmt</var>,
va_list <var>list</var>);
int _vsscanf_r(struct _reent *<var>reent</var>, const char *<var>str</var>,
const char *<var>fmt</var>, va_list <var>list</var>);
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<p><strong>Description</strong><br>
<code>vscanf</code>, <code>vfscanf</code>, and <code>vsscanf</code> are (respectively) variants
of <code>scanf</code>, <code>fscanf</code>, and <code>sscanf</code>. They differ only in
allowing their caller to pass the variable argument list as a
<code>va_list</code> object (initialized by <code>va_start</code>) rather than
directly accepting a variable number of arguments.
<p><br>
<strong>Returns</strong><br>
The return values are consistent with the corresponding functions:
<code>vscanf</code> returns the number of input fields successfully scanned,
converted, and stored; the return value does not include scanned
fields which were not stored.
<p>If <code>vscanf</code> attempts to read at end-of-file, the return value
is <code>EOF</code>.
<p>If no fields were stored, the return value is <code>0</code>.
<p>The routines <code>_vscanf_r</code>, <code>_vfscanf_f</code>, and <code>_vsscanf_r</code> are
reentrant versions which take an additional first parameter which points to the
reentrancy structure.
<p><br>
<strong>Portability</strong><br>
These are GNU extensions.
<p>Supporting OS subroutines required:
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