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Doc Bug #12337 Function fscanf does not correctly handle "\t" in format string
Submitted: 2001-07-24 09:45 UTC Modified: 2002-06-09 17:50 UTC
From: premysl dot dedic at conquest dot cz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 OS: Linux RedHat 6.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-07-24 09:45 UTC] premysl dot dedic at conquest dot cz 
When I copy&paste sample from documentation of fscanf function, I found, that it work incorrectly:

Sample:
while ($userinfo = fscanf ($fp, "%s\t%s\t%s\n")) {
    list ($name, $profession, $countrycode) = $userinfo;
}

Sample file:
abc<tab>def ghi jkl<tab> ..... <newline>
Note: <tab> means here a "tabelator" character (\t)

Result:
$name = 'abc'
$profession = 'def';
$contrycode = 'jkl';

I expect:
$name = 'abc'
$profession = 'def ghi jkl';
$contrycode = ' .... ';

What si wrong???

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 [2002-02-10 19:27 UTC] elixer@php.net 
Whitespace characters (be they space, tab, or newline, etc.) in the format string matche one or more whitespace characters in the input.  So the second \t in your format string is matching the space between 'def' and 'ghi.'

The sample file from the documentation does not include "embedded whitespace" in the different data columns as yours does.

I'm changing this to a documentation problem because the (f)scanf documentation is really lacking.

Sean
 [2002-06-09 17:50 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the
CVS version at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation 
problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/.
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