Extra Specifiers Within Aten

Extra Specifiers Within Aten

As well as the mostly complete standard set of specifiers provided by C, Aten also includes some other useful specifiers that may be used in formatted input and output.

Table 4.9. Extra read/write specifiers

SpecifierMeaning
%*Relevant to formatted input only. Discard the next item, regardless of its type. A corresponding variable argument need not be provided
%rRead characters (starting from the next delimited argument) until the end of the input line is encountered (i.e. 'rest-of-line' specifier). A corresponding string variable should be provided